Re:Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimi...
by barry-cotter on Sunday February 03, 2019 @08:00AM
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Much more divergent, less like Danish and Bokmal (Dano-Norwegian) or Swedish than French and Romanian. But Romanians write in French which they can translate on the fly into Romanian as they read though a very different form of Romanian than what people speak. And written Romanian is used for scripts, songs, transcripts and under a 100 novels. French is Mandarin, Romanian is Cantonese. None of the other topolects have a standard written form that’s used much.
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Re:Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimi...
by cbnotfromthere on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:12AM
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"And written Romanian is used for scripts, songs, transcripts and under a 100 novels"
You meant that there are only less than 100 novels written in Romanian? If yes, that's one of the most absurd claims I've read in my life.
Re:Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimi...
by barry-cotter on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:31AM
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I meant it as an analogy where Romanian is Cantonese and French is Mandarin. I’m not certain there are less than 100 novels in Cantonese but I’d happily bet 2% of my net worth on it. The Chinese language page for written Cantonese[1] lists one author and his English language Wikipedia page doesn’t mention his writing. Irish is a dying language and it both has more written in it and a more active literary scene.
[1]https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&...