Monday, August 07, 2006

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You know when you've been in the South too long... when you notice yourself distinguishing between 'four' and 'ten' by the tone rather than by the initial phoneme.

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At Aug 20, 2006, 2:29:00 PM, Blogger Brendan said:

Hey, in Chengdu they actually flip the tones, so "ten" is 'si4' and "four" is 'si2.' Led to all kinds of hilarity.

 

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