Re: Mandarin demonstratives (Re: Charyan novel! (was: Re: [CONLANG] I'm back!))
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 21:26 |
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:04:12AM +1100, Cheng Zhong Su wrote:
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> If your native language is not a tone language, you
> can just image when you sing a song, every syllable
> you may utter in 8 different ways. That's tone. The
> example is in sentence "You can help me, can't you?"
> .The first 'can' sound like 4th tone of mandarin while
> the last 'can('t)' sound like 3rd tone.
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LOL!! Uhm, excuse me... my L1 is Hokkien :-)
I was referring to the fact that, although I know and use the tones
without problems, I have some trouble *remembering* which tone numbers
correspond with which tone. IMNSHO they should have more logical names for
tones than meaningless numbers, but that's just me...
T
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