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Re: Language Difficulty

From:Amber Adams <amber@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 18:02
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:54:02PM +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > I have tried to teach an off-list conlanger in real life a few phrases of my > > native language, Cantonese, but it's the tones that mess people up. It's > > always the tones that mess people up :P > > Bu2 shi4. (Sorry, only Mandarin, no Cantonese)
bat si! (I think)
> I found the tones in Mandarin complicated, but not the ultimate > problem. I sometimes even noticed to have applied the tone sandhi > rules without thinking about them (yi1, yi2 or yi4; bu2 or bu4; third > tone regular sandhi rule). :-)
I do this too. I think it's because the rules evolved for a reason... it's just easier to say certain things certain ways, especially the 3rd tone stuff.

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