• hddsx@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Not in the implied intonation. Chinese is a language where tone matters. So something like “hey” and “heyyyyyyyy” would be different words.

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      10 months ago

      This is true in all Chinese languages when spoken normally but Mandarin (unlike Cantonese) ignores tone in singing. Pretty sure the name is Mandarin

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        10 months ago

        When people say Chinese, it’s almost implied to be Mandarin. You are correct in both singing and that I was referring to mandarin. Technically mandarin and canto are both dialects of Chinese. Mandarin is just the official dialect

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          10 months ago

          And since the post was about singing, your whole argument is flawed. Checkmate atheist