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"Unless you limit yourself to the official dialect of English, Indo-Germanic also has lots of inconsistencies, partially because of the majority of the populati
by MagnumOpus 9y ago
"Unless you limit yourself to the official dialect of English, Indo-Germanic also has lots of inconsistencies, partially because of the majority of the population being able to speak English is actually a fairly recent development..."
Just saying, unless you talk about written Chinese, the big languages in China are not even intelligible amongst each other - less so than English, French or German. They are not dialects that can be trained together, they are very very distinct languages. (Of course official CCP-speak says the opposite, but they have never been fans of facts.)
- yorwba 9y agoI hope my other reply further downstream makes it clear that I did not mean my comment as you interpret and you just didn't see it. But just in case, I want to make clear that by "the official dialect of Mandarin", I meant the one dialect of the Mandarin language that is officially recognized by the CCP. Whereas by "Chinese" I meant the language spoken by almost everyone in China nowadays, i.e. Mandarin (I did that because I was replying to a comment that was talking about Chinese, so I used their wording). Thus, with a correct understanding of my intentions, the equivalent for English would be "Unless you limit yourself to the official dialect of British English, English also has lots of inconsistencies ..." (where the official dialect would be the Received Pronunciation).