Yeah. I agree in most of what you say. I have only lived in China for 5 years, and most of what I know from China is deeply limited as is such a big country. I

Yeah. I agree in most of what you say. I have only lived in China for 5 years, and most of what I know from China is deeply limited as is such a big country. In particular I have only lived in big cities, not in deep China. I travel frequently there and could talk to people and read most of the common symbols, but I am not native. About the 4000 years old, it is a lapsus thinking on Egipt, and then the voice recognition system repeating it. I wanted to express my opinion fast without thinking much about it so I did not spend too much on HN, and it was a big error as at the end I have to spend a lot of time just clearing some of my sloppy writing. "The statement here seems to say that Chinese doesn't use sentence intonation to indicate the speaker's mood or tone." True. I did not intended to say that but my intent was talking about the range of emotion in tone, putting for example Italian as a 10 of expression in tones, Chinese is a 3, because of the necessity of using tones for language itself. In fact this is one of the big issues for me expressing in Mandaring.