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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by floatingatoll on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:12AM (#20729336)
It’s not about forcing Mandarin being bad, it’s about prohibiting non-Mandarin being bad.

US equivalent to this would be forcing English (which we do) while jailing anyone who teaches Creole (which we don’t).

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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by yorwba on Sunday August 18, 2019 @07:36AM (#20729610)
No one is going to get jailed for teaching Cantonese in China. There are plenty of commercial offerings, e.g. this free introductory course I found: https://www.wanmen.org/courses/586d23485f07127674135d64

Mandarin being the primary language of education doesn't mean that Cantonese is prohibited; it's just not mandatory, so most native Cantonese speakers aren't going to get a formal education in it unless they specifically seek it out.

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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by floatingatoll on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:42PM (#20732351)
Thank you for the correction; it’s too late to edit but I would if I could :(
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Re:HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts ... by rwbhn on Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:08AM (#20729708)
For the US equivalent, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_sch...
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