To: GATOR NAVY
We've all heard foreign language gibberish-what does English sound like to someone who doesn't understand it?
I recently worked with a couple that talked to each other in Cantonese (I think). It was several hundred miles per hour and sounded like the same clucking noise over and over. It sounded like a chicken falling down a flight of stairs.
26 posted on
03/01/2007 1:36:04 AM PST by
Jaysun
(I took one look at her unfashionable eyebrows and thought to myself, "she's literally crazy.")
To: Jaysun
LOL Cantonese is my first language, and you are right, it always sounds like people arguing. I know northern Chinese look down upon the language, but they are tolerating it for the time being as Hong Kong is economically developed.
I know deep insider the minds of unification-minded Taiwanese and mainland Chinese, we are "southern barbarians".
56 posted on
03/17/2007 4:05:35 AM PDT by
NZerFromHK
(The US Founding is what makes Britain and USA separated by much more than a common language.)
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