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- Thu Jun 01, 2017 12:22 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do boards of directors function in multilingual settings
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7822
Re: How do boards of directors function in multilingual sett
I must also add that the above is specific to an international business setting in Hong Kong. A more local Hong Kong business would have drastically different patterns, as would a company that's based in mainland China but does business in Hong Kong..
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 12:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do boards of directors function in multilingual settings
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7822
Re: How do boards of directors function in multilingual sett
I worked for a few years in an international business setting in Hong Kong. This is how it works: * If two or more native speakers of Cantonese talk to one another, they speak Cantonese. * If two or more native speakers of Mandarin talk to one another, they speak Mandarin. [EDIT: an exception to the...
- Mon May 25, 2015 12:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23707
Re: Chinese thread
By "accentless" I mean a flat, bland, standardized accent that does not betray your geographical origins, kind of like "General American" in the U.S. or, from what I understand, the Standard German spoken in northern Germany. Should be like this: /Vn/ is [V~1~] in Beijingese. It is [Vn], [V~n] in "a...
- Thu May 21, 2015 10:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23707
Re: Chinese thread
It feels like I'm never gonna fully learn the pronunciation. :/ Like the other a friend of mine taught me that initial+o is pronunced initial+[uo]. I had no idea, and had not noticed it in any Chinese person's speech before. If you go by the IPA in the Pinyin page on Wikipedia, you'll end up with a...
- Thu May 21, 2015 6:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23707
Re: Chinese thread
It feels like I'm never gonna fully learn the pronunciation. :/ Like the other a friend of mine taught me that initial+o is pronunced initial+[uo]. I had no idea, and had not noticed it in any Chinese person's speech before. If you go by the IPA in the Pinyin page on Wikipedia, you'll end up with a...
- Tue May 05, 2015 7:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23707
Re: Chinese thread
I asked a friend of mine who has studied Chinese in Shanghai and Singapore how /s`ui/ was pronounced. He said something akin to [s`u@i]. I then said that our teacher says [kui] for /kui/, and he answered that that was correct. So what's the deal here? When is ui [ui] and when is it [u@i]? It should...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:58 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23707
Re: Chinese thread
I asked a friend of mine who has studied Chinese in Shanghai and Singapore how /s`ui/ was pronounced. He said something akin to [s`u@i]. I then said that our teacher says [kui] for /kui/, and he answered that that was correct. So what's the deal here? When is ui [ui] and when is it [u@i]? It should...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:57 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23707
Re: Chinese thread
A Mandarin pronunciation question... how are ri and er pronounced? For er , my textbooks say [əɹ], but this site makes it sound like [aɹ]. For ri , that site has something I have trouble transcribing... could be [ɹ] or [yɹ] or even [əɹ]. er - in my idiolect at least it is a perfect rhyme with -ar /...
- Sat May 04, 2013 9:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40228
- Sat May 04, 2013 8:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40228
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
1 - the one child policy exists only in mainland china 2 - there is a one-generation lag between the one-child policy being put in place and first cousins becoming rare 3 - these terms (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) are freely applied in everyday usage (with or without modification) to second, third...
- Sat May 04, 2013 7:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40228
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
Standard Mandarin Chinese - Kinship terms All in all, there are a lot more mandatory distinctions made than in English... Siblings: 哥哥 ge1ge0 [older brother] 弟弟 di4di0 [younger brother] 姐姐 jie3jie0 [older sister] 妹妹 mei4mei0 [younger sister] First cousins: 堂哥 tang2ge1 [older male cousin whose father...
- Sat May 04, 2013 6:21 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40228
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
Yep... and to continue on the same vein [...] What is this wizardry? A citizen of the PRC listing characters in their traditional form first, and then in simplified in parenthesis ? Are my eyes deluding me? 1 - I am not a citizen of the PRC 2 - The citizens of the PRC vary in their usage of, and pr...
- Fri May 03, 2013 9:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
- Replies: 218
- Views: 40228
Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
Yep... and to continue on the same vein Heavy 重 zhong4 Light 輕[轻]qing1 Dark 深 shen1 Light 淺[浅]qian3 [as in colour] Deep 深 shen1 Shallow 淺[浅]qian3 Dark 暗 an4 Bright 亮 liang4 [as in environments; if used to describe colors, then "dull/bright"] Thick 厚 hou4 Thin 薄 bao4 for flat or sheet-like things, e....
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Compounding and the structure of the lexicon
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3535
Re: Compounding and the structure of the lexicon
Here's something I found that you might find useful:chris_notts wrote: I'll keep Googling and post any good links here as I go.
http://books.google.com/books?id=lUIj3O ... navlinks_s
You can also use search terms like "Chinese word formation" and "Chinese morphology" if you haven't tried those.
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7081
Re: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
Well, alright then, is it generally the case that most foreign "a" words are pronounced with /ɑ/ (the FATHER vowel) in the U.S.? The answer to which appears to be, generally, yes.
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:48 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7081
Re: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
To tell you the truth, I think I've been down here too long and my speech has been contaminated, because for some of these words I think I have a three-way distinction. However, I still have /æ/ in plaza, lava, Slavic, and pasta, and maybe Gandhi. Dali and Saab are too foreign for /æ/, and perhaps ...
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:59 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7081
Re: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
As a follow up question, do you raise /a/ before nasals? If you do, is Gandhi raised as much as candy?Hakaku wrote: candy [kʰandi]
Gandhi [gandi]~[gɑndi]
blondie [blɑndi]
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7081
Re: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
phoneme *twitch* may i see some minimal triplets please dally - Dali - dolly (*if* the foreign /a/ is a new phoneme) Are you saying that general Canadian English dialects have /O/ in father? Regarding New England, spats is right; there are three vowels, but that's nothing new. As far as I know they...
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7081
New /a/ phoneme emerging in Canadian English?
I found this: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=6686404&jid=LVC&volumeId=21&issueId=03&aid=6686396 The basic thesis is that, for recent borrowings with "foreign a", where other English dialects either go with the "father" vowel or the "trap" vowel (however they are real...
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One Chinese Poem Read 68 Ways
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1673
One Chinese Poem Read 68 Ways
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjkyMTE3Nzk2.html (The corny background music in a loop is because this is a romantic poem) One poem read 68 ways, including examples from all the major groups, as well as all three Sino-Xenic systems and a bunch of historical reconstructions. Quality varies because thi...
- Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 649256
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
for those of you who rhyme "mirror" and "nearer," how do you pronounce the first vowel of:
irrespective
irresponsible
and
irrational
irrevocable
edit: irradiate
?
irrespective
irresponsible
and
irrational
irrevocable
edit: irradiate
?
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Very detailed map of the North American dialects of English
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6921
Re: Very detailed map of the North American dialects of Engl
Canadian English as one. Pretty much fail. Well, it is pretty homogeneous compared to the US. Besides, it's not quite one; there are the atlantic provinces explicitly marked as separate, and you see those other lines crisscrossing it (there's a brown one surrounding the prairie provinces)? Isogloss...
- Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Very detailed map of the North American dialects of English
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6921
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Cantonese
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2613
Re: Cantonese
40 may be too low. wikipedia lists a hundred (or more) and most are legitimate, run-of-the-mill, modern, colloquially-used words at a quick glance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_classifiers that being said, there's a lot of flexibility in terms of what classifier goes with each noun s...
Re: Incatena
[I generally agree with pthug here... but in addition, and as an extension to what I've said earlier -- you may well program a superhuman CEO with "making a profit" and "pleasing stakeholders" in mind as the superhuman CEO's hard-coded desires, but once the superhuman CEO reaches and then surpasses...