"Chinese" can mean the written OR the spoken language. It can also be used to describe people who are born of this descent.
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i.e. Can you read Chinese? <-- written
( v' t6 r$ Q1 k6 o9 ATVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Do you speak Chinese? <-- spoken公仔箱論壇' A) E4 s5 P3 ~& ^; `
Are you Chinese? <-- adjectivetvb now,tvbnow,bttvb( ]) D. t9 f2 U, R, D+ d
+ L4 v Q- ?0 }- I: |) z; o8 ATVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Since this series takes place in an era of HK before the late 1990s (before it is officially returned as a part of China), "Chinese" can be loosely used to mean Cantonese, since Mandarin hasn't been established as a common dialect of China yet. On the other hand, Cantonese is the predominant language of the local area. So, I think what 松哥 said is acceptable.  |
發表於 2012-12-17 03:33 AM
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