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  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    mandarin speakers, in addition to distinguishing between 4 different tones, also distinguish between aspirated and non-aspirated consonants, and also has three different series of fricatives/affricates at points of articulation that range roughly between the english sounds "s/ts" and "sh/ch"; so that's a total of 6 different consonantal sounds that english speakers can't differentiate, in addition to distinguishing between P'eijing (with a puff of air, written in pinyin as Peijing) and Peijing (without that puff of air, feels soft to a native english speaker, like a "b" but not vocalized, written in pinyin as Beijing).

    in short, the english brainpan could fucking never

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        :amerikkka: i'm just joking around, languages are obviously pretty universally complex in unique ways. i just wanted to post some mandarin fun facts and make fun of anglos.

        also, no one asked me anything?