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03-04-2010, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by jbradfor View Post
You will piss off a lot of people if you insist that "Cantonese is not Chinese". It is not Mandarin phrasing, but "Chinese" incorporates languages/dialects beyond Standard Mandarin.
If someone feel pissed about my word, I apologize. May be I should rephrase it to "it is Cantonese but not formal Chinese". Sorry for the thoughtlessness.

Additional information about Cantonese: it is more like a dialect (as there are kansai and kantou dialect in Japanese) than a language. We speak in Cantonese but write in Chinese. However, it is still possible to express Cantonese in words (informally).

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