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Re:Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Canto... by inkyoto on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:30AM (#27538115)
Yes, one can speak their own first Sinitic language on the mainland (and they do, and many even speak more than 2) and that is not banned.

But they can't buy a textbook on their first language because the official policy is that everything that is not Mandarin is a «dialect», and dialects can't be studied (as in «are impossible to study due to not deserving to be studied»), therefore there is no need for textbooks.

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Re:Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Canto... by yorwba on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:04AM (#27538674)
Jingdong has a large selection of Cantonese textbooks: https://so.m.jd.com/ware/search.action?keyword=%E7%B2%A4%E8%...

Have you tried to buy one?

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Re:Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Canto... by inkyoto on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:13AM (#27538745)
In or from mainland China? No. I converse with native Cantonese speakers from Gwong Dung on a regular basis, and they have told me that teaching materials were not available on the mainland. I am either misinformed, or the situation with textbooks has vastly improved in recent years.

I have had no problem buying Cantonese teaching materials, including the Robert Bauer's comprehensive Cantonese dictionary, Victoria Yip's Cantonese grammar book and a quite a few more obscure ones from Western online book sellers.

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Re:Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Canto... by throwaway2037 on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:44PM (#27552259)
Why was this downvoted? It makes no sense. I am not an apologist for CCP but this is a terrific retort!
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