Mandarin contains 4 tones, and each of them represents a different level of pitch, so this lang has cadence and sounds more like music.
But English doesn't.
Wow! How can a lang be better than another in almost all aspects?
It is simpler, more stable as well as more melodious.
This is unfair!
No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
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Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Hmmph, stability -- who wants it?
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Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Wow wow wow...
Stability means nothing???
It seems that you are a 100% layman in linguistics...
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Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Psst! Obvious trolling!
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Mandarin sounds tone deaf compared to Fuzhounese. Sweet, beautiful, complicated tone sandhi making it musical.
Or Vietnamese. It incorporates tone into its music - unlike Mandarin. And you're talking to someone who has a soft spot for classical Chinese music.
Or Vietnamese. It incorporates tone into its music - unlike Mandarin. And you're talking to someone who has a soft spot for classical Chinese music.
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
I like Mandarin as much as the next girl, but I feel that all these threads are getting a bit obnoxious and not really selling the case.
Maybe a more appropriate option for a forum centred around making languages and linguistics would be to make a thread about Chinese phonetics and logography from a scholarly perspective? I love looking at how language changes and develops over time for instance, so I'd love to hear more about how Mandarin came to be the way it is today! Just a suggestion.
Maybe a more appropriate option for a forum centred around making languages and linguistics would be to make a thread about Chinese phonetics and logography from a scholarly perspective? I love looking at how language changes and develops over time for instance, so I'd love to hear more about how Mandarin came to be the way it is today! Just a suggestion.
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Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
English is a Germanic language; have you never heard the joke about how romance in German sounds like a death threat, while death threats in French sound like romance?
Sample bias and stacking the deck, both come to mind.Wow! How can a lang be better than another in almost all aspects?
More stable? Mandarin is just one twig - and a recent one at that - of the grand Chinese language family.It is simpler, more stable as well as more melodious.
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Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Locking this thread. I will explain why over here
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But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
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But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
Just one time.