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Traditional Chinese are quite consistent with simplified one. I think you ought to say English and Spanish are replaced by British English and European Spanish
by justicezyx 6y ago
Traditional Chinese are quite consistent with simplified one.
I think you ought to say English and Spanish are replaced by British English and European Spanish?
- hkai 6y agoI will admit it was not the best comparison. But having these books does feel quite scary, that a foreign language (even though you understand it well) is imposed on you by a hostile government.
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- wodenokoto 6y agoI always thought that most books written with traditional script in Hong Kong would be written in Cantonese, while the simplified would be in mandarin. These are quite different languages.
- moonchild 6y agoCantonese and mandarin share a script.
- eloisius 6y agoNot only a script but also the same written language - Standard Chinese, unless it was very colloquially written Cantonese. That's part of what's so fascinating about Chinese. There are so many dialects that are quite different when spoken, but share the same written language.
- tanilama 6y agoThere is no Cantonese script. It is traditional Chinese characters + low few hundreds (200-300) phonemes that are unique to Cantonese, which is mainly used for informal conversation. If you publish a book, most likely it will be in the formal Chinese.