• Drusas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure why you’re going on as though I said English made Mandarin sound like anything. You’re kind of going off on a tangent. And you can literally read up on this topic of how transcription has changed over the years.

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      1 year ago

      I as many of my people know cantonese and mandarin while knowing latin and english, we have way more insight than your 2nd hand story which might not even be the fault of your friend if he only had few minutes to tell you about it or you simply not having the time to understand him.

      It is important to not let this just go bc people blindly believe things on reddit and lemmy especially when it is such foreign topic. Peking was Peking bc it is cantonese transferred english, german and co. Thats a known fact

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        1 year ago

        You’re starting to come across as racist.

        Again, you can read about the history of Chinese to English transcription. Nothing I have said is inaccurate.

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          1 year ago

          Pulling out the racist card on language topics and being confronted on “I heard from a friend” is hilarious. I think at this point people can just read that your comments are wrong and are no longer easily fooled by misinformation, so it is fine now. I dont need you to admit being wrong. Which barely happens on reddit nor lemmy

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            1 year ago

            Funny coming from the person who refuses to look up the history of transcription. Glad to be done with this conversation, however.