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No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 07:12
by Oligey
Mandarin contains 4 tones, and each of them represents a different level of pitch, so this lang has cadence and sounds more like music.
But English doesn't.
Wow! How can a lang be better than another in almost all aspects?
It is simpler, more stable as well as more melodious.
This is unfair!
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 07:14
by Khemehekis
Oligey wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024 07:12
It is simpler, more stable as well as more melodious.
Hmmph, stability -- who wants it?
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 07:16
by Oligey
Khemehekis wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024 07:14
Oligey wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024 07:12
It is simpler, more stable as well as more melodious.
Hmmph, stability -- who wants it?
Wow wow wow...
Stability means nothing???
It seems that you are a 100% layman in linguistics...
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 07:34
by Knox Adjacent
Psst! Obvious trolling!
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 08:29
by Visions1
Mandarin sounds tone deaf compared to Fuzhounese. Sweet, beautiful, complicated tone sandhi making it musical.
Or Vietnamese. It incorporates tone into its music - unlike Mandarin. And you're talking to someone who has a soft spot for classical Chinese music.
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 08:34
by Znex
I like Mandarin as much as the next girl, but I feel that all these threads are getting a bit obnoxious and not really selling the case.
Maybe a more appropriate option for a forum centred around making languages and linguistics would be to make a thread about Chinese phonetics and logography from a scholarly perspective? I love looking at how language changes and develops over time for instance, so I'd love to hear more about how Mandarin came to be the way it is today! Just a suggestion.
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 13:36
by Keenir
Oligey wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024 07:12
Mandarin contains 4 tones, and each of them represents a different level of pitch, so this lang has cadence and sounds more like music.
But English doesn't.
English is a Germanic language; have you never heard the joke about how romance in German sounds like a death threat, while death threats in French sound like romance?
Wow! How can a lang be better than another in almost all aspects?
Sample bias and stacking the deck, both come to mind.
It is simpler, more stable as well as more melodious.
More stable? Mandarin is just one twig - and a recent one at that - of the grand Chinese language family.
Re: No way! Mandarin sounds better than English?
Posted: 01 Jan 2024 16:13
by sangi39
Locking this thread. I will explain why over
here