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minus-squarestephen01king@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoChinese speaking people are pretty good at memes, so I wouldn’t mind that as long as its not just more Tankie memes like Hexbear used to spam.
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoI would guess that your average PRC citizen is less likely to be a tankie than your average hexbear.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoI don’t know enough about their language. Do speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese use the same alphabet?
minus-squareInevitableList@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoChinese uses ideograms, which are the same for all dialects and are even used in Japan.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s good, thanks for the info.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s good, thanks for the info.
minus-squareInevitableList@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThey also developed a way of writing with roman characters (called pinyin) so they could type on computers and phones. Taiwan developed a different method and Japan uses its own alphabet .
Chinese speaking people are pretty good at memes, so I wouldn’t mind that as long as its not just more Tankie memes like Hexbear used to spam.
I would guess that your average PRC citizen is less likely to be a tankie than your average hexbear.
Good point.
I don’t know enough about their language. Do speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese use the same alphabet?
Chinese uses ideograms, which are the same for all dialects and are even used in Japan.
That’s good, thanks for the info.
That’s good, thanks for the info.
They also developed a way of writing with roman characters (called pinyin) so they could type on computers and phones. Taiwan developed a different method and Japan uses its own alphabet .