Re: OT: Translation (Was: Re: OT: Official language post)

HS writes

>  > I was thinking... if I said: "Li chin e khi siau a.", would that've
>>  made my meaning clearer?
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>
>Not really, there is a tonal ambiguity between /chin5 e/ and /chin1 e/.
>Although I suppose if you differentiated the /e/'s, which is long in the
>second case, it would resolve the ambiguity.
What would really have resolved the ambiguity is Chinese
*characters*, the fount of all joy in the universe.

Kou

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