On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, alex chang wrote:
> I hope not! I'm Cantonese myself.
> I had a feeling Madarin was spelled with an a.
> You know a lot more about the language than
> I do. I tried going to school for it but it
> was so difficult.
Well, I don't claim to know all the ins and outs of the
cultural/social issues here, but what I wrote was based on my
understanding of things (like whether someone speaks Cantonese or
Mandarin is more a geographic question than a socioeconomic one).
> --- Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, alex chang wrote:
> >
> > > Cantonese is usually spoken by the uneducated, Madirin is spoken by
> > > the educated. Cantonese is the more informal dialect, Madirin the
> >
> > Wow, I think you are going to offend a lot of people saying that. And
> > I don't think it is correct. They are simply different languages,
> > spoken in different places. (And it's "Mandarin".)
> >
> > > more formal. Listen to someone speak Cantonese, then listen to
> > > someone speak Madirin- you'll be able to tell right away which one's
> > > which.
> >
> > Of course! They're different languages, they sound quite different.
> > For example, their tonal systems are different -- Mandarin has four
> > tones, and I believe Cantonese has nine.
> >
> > Wow, this is really getting off-topic! Sorry.
> >
> >
> > > Something I learned at a very young age- you say do-jeh
> > > when someone gives you something (as in a gift), and
> > > you say m-goi when someone does something for you
> > > (as in a waiter bringing you food).
> > >
> > > --- Michael Carmack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:29:27PM -0300, Martin Mauri wrote:
> > > > > What's "cantonese"?
> > > > > And how do you say "thank you"?
> > > > >
> > > > > > I know how to say "thank you" in Cantonese. That's it.
> > > > > > And that I learned from a movie. Not much help. Want the
> > > > > > name of the movie?
> > > >
> > > > Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese, most prominently associated with
> > > > Hong Kong. (It's the language spoken in virtually all movies out of
> > > > Hong Kong.) Thank you can be translated as either do-jeh or m-goi.
> > > >
> > > > m.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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