> I'm sure that many "believe" so, but mostly because they never interacted with the Cantonese language, and therefore have a naive misunderstanding. This was

> I'm sure that many "believe" so, but mostly because they never interacted with the Cantonese language, and therefore have a naive misunderstanding. This was my experience having learned only the Mandarin dialect as a child. I kind of assumed that other dialects were merely different pronunciations of the same sequence of characters—more a naive notion than something I was “taught” or “believed”. My naive notion dissipated as an adult as I traveled more and encountered more dialects.