GirlChat #729655
Minkowski space...
Here I have been trying to compare the tones of Cantonese, Teochew, Mandarin and Thai. Sometimes they do correspond to each other, but most often not. The tonal "profiles" of these languages are different. As I said at VoA chat, I am never quite safisfied with some ideas. Now that I have done what other people have suggested, I have returned to certain problems there and wondered why the hell I cannot find a name that contains only 3 words, 4 at a maximum, and perfectly expresses a thousand ideas, so to say. Anyway, here I quote my passage from another message: "okay, this is a long story, we sometimes spoke in a very cryptic way, sometimes we understood each other, and sometimes we did not understand anything" -- but pretended that we understand When you get older, it gets easier to admit that. :) |