Re: Language Difficulty

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

"bat1 si6" is the correct Cantonese pronunciation, but the expression is a
Mandarinism.

Kou