Re: Where to Get Characters (was:Language Difficulty)

Actually, I'm not going to Shanghai anytime soon . . . BUT one of my
coworker a waishengren from Shanghai IS going during our semester break in
October AND has already offered to pick up an English-Wu dictionaryand or
tapes for me!!  Give me the title/author and I'll ask her to look for
it!!!!!!!!

I have Guo-Tai Shuangyu, by siad author, but is the book you're talking
about a one volume-one cassette tape set?  It was pretty cheap, so I'm not
sure it's the work you're referring to.

Adam

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>From: laokou <laokou@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Where to Get Characters (was:Language Difficulty)
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:59:17 -0400
>
>From: "Adam Walker"
>
> > Nasty little Mandarinisms.  BTW  anyone know an online resource for
> > nonstandard/"dialect" characters???
>
>Nope, but if you find one, let me know! :)
>
>The "Guo2 Tai2 Shuang1Yu3 Ci3dian3" by Yang2 Qing1 Chu4 is a *totally* cool
>reference overall, a little pricey if you're on a shoestring (but hey,
>you're working, you sinonut you, so indulge), but seemed to be gaining
>popularity when I left. You should be able to find that at Caves or Eslite.
>Trouble is, he coins his own characters, which I never saw getting accepted
>into the mainstream. "Pu3tong1hua4 Min3nan2yu3 Ci2dian3" has no one
>claimant, but is mainland-produced and was becoming more available when I
>left (it's also in simplified characters, if that's an issue). They seem to
>really dig for character equivalents, which I liked. Found that
>serendipitously at a backstreet bookshop, but saw it elsewhere before
>leaving. There was also a kind of Taiwanese "Readers' Digest" which
>featured
>funky new characters to meet the newly emerging written literature in
>Taiwanese (that month's copy at C or E, and then you subscribe).
>
>Cantonese? I still defer to Sidney Lau. Comprehensive, it's not, but a
>*great* starting point. (Should you go to HK, *great* bookstore a block
>over
>from the Chungking Mansions in Kowloon -- don't remember the names of any
>of
>those streets. Nathan? and then a block west)
>
>Shanghainese? Heh, heh. *I* have the great one. Another serendipitous find.
>Going to Shanghai? We'll talk. :)
>
>Kou

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