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| bio | website | peterthenelson.com |
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| location | United States | |
| age | 25 | |
| visits | member for | 11 months |
| seen | 1 hour ago | |
| stats | profile views | 33 |
I lived in China for a couple years. My Chinese isn't too bad, but I'm always trying to get better. Special interests in:
- Etymology
- Historical phonology
- Winning arguments in other languages
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Did a king ask for a ball? How did 王 + 求 become 球? Brilliant answer. |
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May 15 |
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How is pronunciation discussed in Chinese? @孤影萍踪 天(tiān), 跹(xiān), and 圆(yuán) do all end in [ɛn], while 山(shān) and 关(guān) do not. The rhyming rules for classical chinese poetry are complex and do not have much to do with Mandarin pronunciation. See this for a lengthy exposition of rhyming rules in Classical Chinese poetry. |
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May 15 |
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How is pronunciation discussed in Chinese? @NS.X. It's entirely possible you both perceive them as rhyming; but that would be a product of your "feeling" for Chinese phonology. If you were a foreign language learner, it would not be helpful to think of 煙 as being 一 + 安. |
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May 15 |
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How is pronunciation discussed in Chinese? @孤影萍踪 "An" is pronounced [an], while "yan" (or the "ian" in words starting with consonants) is pronounced [jɛn]. They're both spelled the same, and it's entirely possible you perceive them the same, but the vowels are different (e.g., pot = [pat], pet = [pɛt]) |
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May 14 |
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How is pronunciation discussed in Chinese? How do you know what a "K" sound is? Is that any more illuminating than saying that "cow" starts with the same sound as "kid"? Also, I disagree with your casual switch from "Learner" to "children". Learners of a foreign language need to be taught how to pronounce things. Children generally don't. |
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May 14 |
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How is pronunciation discussed in Chinese? I find it somewhat humorous to see 浅 broken down as 七-衣-安 because the "an" in 安 doesn't even rhyme with the "an" in 浅. Of course, the point still stands that you can indicate initials and finals by comparison with other characters. |
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May 13 |
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How do we describe a “sophisticated person”? @孤影萍踪 I'd love to see you give an answer w/examples. You always give a lot of attention to detail in your answers. |
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May 12 |
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Are tones sometimes glossed over? @OlleLinge My take: If you have a small change, edit it into the answer. If the answerer really disagrees with you, they can reject the edit. If it's a big enough change (in your own opinion), make your own (complete) answer. |
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May 11 |
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Are tones sometimes glossed over? @OlleLinge I'm not entirely sure when it's "OK" to edit someone's answer. Worst case, you can always make your own. In any event, it's better to have answer-information in an answer, rather than in comments. |
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May 11 |
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Are tones sometimes glossed over? @OlleLinge I hear there's this thing where you can post answers. And then people can upvote them. Nawww, probably not a real thing. |
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May 10 |
answered | how to translate 大脑迅速转动起来? |
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May 9 |
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Correct usage of “behind schedule” Thanks for all of the really great examples! I only have one upvote to give, unfortunately. |
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May 9 |
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What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? 在大陆，不管是哪个意思都是laji |
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May 7 |
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What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? corrected pronunciations for the wu dialects. |
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May 7 |
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What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? @deutschZuid Oops. Somehow I didn't see it there (I was looking at the translations at the bottom). The si->xi transition is indeed quite common (Mandarin did it after all); not sure the "femininity" of Suzhou dialect has much influence on sound change though. |
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May 7 |
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What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? @deutschZuid Interesting. That's pretty similar to the 苏州话 pronunciation given by Wiktionary: [lɒ³¹⁻²²si⁴⁴]. If you can find a link, please edit in the pronunciation ^_^ |
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May 6 |
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What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? @CongXu I'm not suggesting the characters 垃圾 didn't exist until the PRC; I'm suggesting that the pronunciation laji didn't exist until around then. (Certainly the narrative I'm seeing is "Northerners who didn't have 垃圾 in their native dialect mispronounced it based on the phonetics"). If you have more sources that can help date when the laji pronunciation became common/popular please help find some and edit them in. |
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May 6 |
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What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? Added more sources, fixed formatting |
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May 5 |
answered | What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? |
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May 4 |
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What is the correct pronunciation of 垃圾? Where are you that you have heard lese? |
