Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ...
by mytailorisrich on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:20AM
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Cantonese, like mandarin, is a tonal language.
The examples in the article miss the tones. It's like writing pinyin without tones (even with tones it's much less clear than using characters).
This means that understanding a sentence requires a good knowledge of the oral language and to read it all to extract the meaning from the overall context.
That seems to be the point: Software tools will be completely lost.
The examples in the article miss the tones. It's like writing pinyin without tones (even with tones it's much less clear than using characters).
This means that understanding a sentence requires a good knowledge of the oral language and to read it all to extract the meaning from the overall context.
That seems to be the point: Software tools will be completely lost.