Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: linguistic hegemony, was Recent history of vi Date: 12 Dec 2025 07:25:58 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <10he0oj$237cl$4@dont-email.me> <10hfb1t$1nip$1@gal.iecc.com> <10hfb79$2fut8$3@dont-email.me> <10hft10$1bbn$1@gal.iecc.com> <10hga1c$2n91j$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net OrTbEKLBa8cWT0pbUCoO9gdmO5Kfsc55Iqe4LwDFbd8OFsvt08 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YLfOLEB/oWWH1bXPui2V+2NRtpY= sha256:JJqW4xNaC25juiyvV1UKT5OSlKWq14uU5WdDhBHISMM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78881 alt.folklore.computers:232501 On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:43:06 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > China has had a common written or drawn language for thousands of years > which permitted the existence of the Chinese Empire. The changes since > the Communist aka Red Army take-over have been refinements and some > conformity imposed on the spoken language. Most of those refinements > have been to the transliteration into other alphabets such as the Latin > alphabet. They do have Cantonese. Lucy Liu, who had learned Mandarin as a kid, remarked that learning enough Cantonese for a movie she was making was difficult. For the most part China puts the 'diversity is strength' dogma into question.