Joss was right... Mandarin is the language of the future...
POSTED BY: Micronaut
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Just saw this on CNN...
"Expert: New 'must learn' language likely to be Mandarin"
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/27/future.language.ap/index.ht
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Weird... Joss's accidental choice of Mandarin over Cantonese may actually work out in reality...
"Just remember... all success is illusion: what has really been accomplished is the displacement of an area of specific failure to somewhere else... or is it the other way around?"
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Originally posted by Micronaut:
Weird... Joss's accidental choice of Mandarin over Cantonese may actually work out in reality...
And we Firefly fans already have a leg up...
We can cuss a blue streak in Mandarin!
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That is total gôu pì... Firefly fans would never curse in Mandarin... Dong ma? 
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Originally posted by Micronaut:
That is total gôu pì... Firefly fans would never curse in Mandarin... Dong ma?
Uh huh... well that's FAY-FAY duh PEE-yen!
On a related topic... I've been told by a friend, who travels in China, that Chinese people actually like to curse in English!
And that's no tzão gáo.
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20 years later...
I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin.
My guess is zero.
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20 years later...
I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin.
My guess is zero.
Probably 2 or maybe 1 anyone with the Liu, Wong, Lehei or 'Wang' type name, you will have AI that will get a lot of people fired.
its not an escape language for a Westerner to learn, far removed from Latin, Germanic, Indo-European languages, it has lots and lots of news sounds, bending tones, a alphabet picto Logogram indicative Pictograph morphemes symbol ideogram 'letters' with thousands upon thousands of characters
possibly one of the more difficult languages to learn
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Songs in English are often dumb and the grammar poor, I can't see how it improves your English so why would it truly work in French?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
20 years later...
I wonder how many people working at CNN know how to speak Mandarin.
My guess is zero.
Probably 2 or maybe 1 anyone with the Liu, Wong, Lehei or 'Wang' type name, you will have AI that will get a lot of people fired.
Well right... If we're going to cheat.
You know what I mean. Not a one damn virtue-signalling Whitey or diversity hire working at CNN over the last 20 years ever learned Chinese.
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its not an escape language for a Westerner to learn, far removed from Latin, Germanic, Indo-European languages, it has lots and lots of news sounds, bending tones, a alphabet picto Logogram indicative Pictograph morphemes symbol ideogram 'letters' with thousands upon thousands of characters
possibly one of the more difficult languages to learn
Yeah. Those characters are wild. Same with Japanese and Kanji. I honestly don't even understand how they can communicate over the internet via keyboard unless they learned another language to do it or made their own hybrid language expressly for typing.
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