Combating liberalism by sharing the link.

  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Some of these people are at most three years away from going full "It's not even a real language, it's just chicken-scratch and funny noises."

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It would be funny to see them try that, what is the rationale when confronted with the fact Chinese goes back at least 5000 years. 99% of the people couldn't possible understand Middle English today and Modern English is only ~500 years old.

      • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        what is the rationale when confronted with the fact Chinese goes back at least 5000 years

        Some combination of:

        • "5000-year-old chicken scratch is still chicken scratch 🤣🤣🤣"
        • "Listen, any eight-year-old Anglo can just about get the gist of Chaucer. If you can't, maybe you need to go back to school"
        • "The purported ancientness of Chinese culture is a CCP hoax", possibly embellished by something like "Well, since Taiwan is the historic homeland of the Chinese people, and since none of the records originating on Taiwan are that old..."
      • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        its hard to compare the two. "Chinese" is more of a language family than a language, even within Mandarin there are many dialects. it wasnt until the 1900s when the Qing dynasty attempted to standardize an official "Chinese language". before then, someone from northern China and someone from southern China likely wouldnt be able to understand each other. i dont know any Chinese language btw, im just kinda amateurly interested in linguistics

        • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          The language/dialect divide doesn't actually exist in linguistics, which has long since moved on to calling things "varieties" instead. So, you have multiple varieties of Chinese just like you have multiple varieties of Arabic or multiple varieties of Romance.