BlueEagle:
Thanks for your reply. What you say about discriminatin is not really correct. Chinese when written using the stylised characters or the alphabetical pinyin system is understood by all literate Chinese people. The dialects you refer to are only concerned with sound ie how the word is pronounced and they have nothing to do with how the word is written. To put it another way is to say Chinese is a pictorial, not a phonetic language. Words are pronounced differently in different provinices, even though they are written in the same way and have the same meaning. Thus it stands that the written word is all embracing. There is no difference between me seeing French on the French Forum and not understanding it and a Hong Kong expatriate seeing Chinese on the Fragrant Harbour screen and not understanding it. Same Thing.
I am not asking for a separate forum for Chinese only, I am only asking that the title of Fragrant Harbour be amended to reflect and remind that Chinese is encouraged. If one cares to think geographically then surely that's not too much to ask. Perhaps you would be kind enough to pass this onto the administrator.
Regards,
Hong Xing
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