>From: laokou <laokou@...>
>Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:16:44 -0400
>
>From: "Amber Adams"
>
> > 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)
>
>m4 hai6
AIYA! I got myself all mixed up in my last post on this. M si is
Taiwanese! Of COURSE Cantonese is M hai! *smashing head with keyboard*
>
>"bat1 si6" is the correct Cantonese pronunciation, but the expression is a
>Mandarinism.
>
>Kou
Nasty little Mandarinisms. BTW anyone know an online resource for
nonstandard/"dialect" characters???
Adam
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