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Originally Posted by Tomisimo
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is this right?
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Right! And there were quite a few times when I nearly got in trouble because of that wrong tone thing. Also in the south of china people have a lot of bad accents and speech deffects, e.g. they make no difference between the sounds "s" and "sh", so once i was supposed to have an appointment at 10 p.m. ("shi"), as I was said, but i was really really late for it, cause in fact it was at 4 p.m. ("si"). I also know a guy who came to a shop and said that he wants milk, but because of the wrong tone it came out like he wants woman's breast
Writing the characters is pretty hard, it's like a kinda art. The logic of the language is also something completely different from any other language, sometimes it's just freaking you out! And by the way, "ma" can also mean marijuana, and also to curse or to say rude swear words to smb.