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A mature language can express one thing with many different styles. Finding many ways to say the same thing don't means you find many unintelligible languages.
by jhvkjhk 5y ago
A mature language can express one thing with many different styles. Finding many ways to say the same thing don't means you find many unintelligible languages.
Australian say "G'day" rather than "Hello", does the difference of greeting makes Australian-English a standalone language?
Besides, you didn't refute his main idea: phonetic symbol is not equivalent to formal writing.
- thereare5lights 5y agoCantonese and Mandarin are not mutually intelligible. Australian English and American English and British English are mutually intelligible. You might as well be claiming that Old English and modern English are the same language.
- canjobear 5y agoCantonese has different styles and registers, both formal and informal, within itself. 他不在這裏 is Mandarin; it is not a grammatical sentence in Cantonese.