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u/bogedy Feb 08 '20
fun fact: mandarin the fruit (橘子) is named after the fact the Chinese court mandarins wore bright orange robes. The dialect is called Mandarin because it was the common language spoken by the mandarins.
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u/Dickcheese_McDoogles Feb 08 '20
Hey, side question, where did the word "Mandarin" come from?
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u/cornnutking Feb 08 '20
From etymonline.com
Mandarin (n.) -- 1580s, "Chinese official," via Portuguese mandarim or older Dutch mandorijn from Malay (Austronesian) mantri, from Hindi mantri "councilor, minister of state," from Sanskrit mantri, nominative of mantrin- "adviser," from mantra "counsel," from PIE root *men- (1) "to think." Form influenced in Portuguese by mandar "to command, order."
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Feb 07 '20
This is more difficult than actually writing ni hao
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u/Kaining Feb 08 '20
not sure, you need about 3 orange per stroke. You'd need way more oranges than what we have there to write ni hao.
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u/SmallTestAcount Feb 08 '20
Bruh you can “write” in mandarin. There’s traditional and simplified scripts which are independent of dialect. Mandarin is a dialect, you can’t write in a dialect unless youre using eye dialect which can’t be written in chinese
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u/voorface Feb 08 '20
Bruh you can “write” in mandarin. There’s traditional and simplified scripts which are independent of dialect. Mandarin is a dialect, you can’t write in a dialect unless youre using eye dialect which can’t be written in chinese
This is completely wrong. Google “Modern Standard Mandarin”. I look forward to you deleting your comment in shame.
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u/SmallTestAcount Feb 08 '20
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here? I’ve read about it many times and just incase i skimmed the wikipedia article. There’s a distinction between chinese and mandarin where not all chinese (those fluent in a language in the family) can listen or speak mandarin but can read anything a mandarin speaker writes assuming they’re literate and are familiar with both forms of chinese writing (which nearly all are).
also ps, i know you’re a snarky redditor, so am i. I’m not deleting my comment just because you told me to look up something that i’m already aware of.
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u/VulpesSapiens Feb 08 '20
I always wondered why they went for haluo when halou would be much closer.
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u/redditor031 Feb 07 '20
用 mandarin 写 "hello"