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Although Taiwanese Mandarin and Mainland Mandarin are almost perfectly intelligible to each other, they have diverged from each other when it comes to modern no
by namelosw 5y ago
Although Taiwanese Mandarin and Mainland Mandarin are almost perfectly intelligible to each other, they have diverged from each other when it comes to modern nouns, especially in the fields of technology and medical science, etc.
To make the problem even worse, Google Translate only provides "Chinese (Simplified)" and "Chinese (Traditional)" instead of "Taiwanese Mandarin" or "Mainland Mandarin". While these two character sets can one to one map with each other, the result could be confusing for the user.
- Legogris 5y agoThe article is not explicit about it - just saying "Taiwanese", which may or may not refer to Taiwanese Mandarin - but maybe the patients native tongue was not Mandarin but Taigi/Hokkien (which is what IME people most often mean when they say just "Taiwanese" without qualifier) or even Hakka. While Taiwanese people not speaking Mandarin natively are somewhat rare abroad, it would explain the difficulties in interpretation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Hokkien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Hokkien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Taiwan