I hope not! I'm Cantonese myself.
I had a feeling Madarin was spelled with an a.
You know a lot more about the language than
I do. I tried going to school for it but it
was so difficult.
My last post on this, promise.
-alex
--- Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, alex chang wrote:
>
> > Cantonese is usually spoken by the uneducated, Madirin is spoken by
> > the educated. Cantonese is the more informal dialect, Madirin the
>
> Wow, I think you are going to offend a lot of people saying that. And
> I don't think it is correct. They are simply different languages,
> spoken in different places. (And it's "Mandarin".)
>
> > more formal. Listen to someone speak Cantonese, then listen to
> > someone speak Madirin- you'll be able to tell right away which one's
> > which.
>
> Of course! They're different languages, they sound quite different.
> For example, their tonal systems are different -- Mandarin has four
> tones, and I believe Cantonese has nine.
>
> Wow, this is really getting off-topic! Sorry.
>
>
> > Something I learned at a very young age- you say do-jeh
> > when someone gives you something (as in a gift), and
> > you say m-goi when someone does something for you
> > (as in a waiter bringing you food).
> >
> > --- Michael Carmack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:29:27PM -0300, Martin Mauri wrote:
> > > > What's "cantonese"?
> > > > And how do you say "thank you"?
> > > >
> > > > > I know how to say "thank you" in Cantonese. That's it.
> > > > > And that I learned from a movie. Not much help. Want the
> > > > > name of the movie?
> > >
> > > Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese, most prominently associated with
> > > Hong Kong. (It's the language spoken in virtually all movies out of
> > > Hong Kong.) Thank you can be translated as either do-jeh or m-goi.
> > >
> > > m.
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