Cantonese should be treated like another language because it has different lexical and grammar with Mandarin. I've read other threads about Cantonese in here and found "Cantonese is a spoken dialect of Chinese, but that the Chinese written language is the same whether you speak Cantonese or Mandarin"
I tell the real situation about Cantonese, Mandarin and written language in here. In serious writing, such as documents and newspaper, people use Standard Chinese, which is based on Mandarin grammar. However, in personal time, such as blog writing and internet chatting, many people write in Cantonese grammar, that is, written Cantonese. Google translate can't even handle a sentence of written Cantonese. http://img.skitch.com/20100331-bx8fr7bxwcg2ptrn7t7cqn9ch4.jpg http://img.skitch.com/20100331-fnh1yeyin31fsbjn5bkhr4r2an.jpg http://img.skitch.com/20100331-k3nb3fs2kngqr1gdetebgsur27.jpg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
