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Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese | whut

killerzoza — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:23:00 +0000

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Topic: Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Poster: killerzoza
Post title: whut

first of all i am not flaming, but i do find that you are making the differences seem slightly too big for any of the less informed who may be reading.

皇后 is always 皇后 and never 皇後 as when the PRC simplified 後 they simply merged into a homonym which is 后, so two original characters becomes one, as is the case with 干乾 and 幹 (three into one in this case). Think of 天后 in Hong Kong for instance or Queen's Road.

me, being a Canadian Chinese from Hong Kong, am able to fully comprehend Taiwanese Mandarin both in text and speaking. Sure, i agree there are many differences, but they are easy to guess just by plain logic.

and from your examples ,

公車 is really a no brainer for us hong kongers. as well as 行動電話.
the only one where i can think of that may cause some problems would be 玉米.
besides 波士 and many others are colloquialisms, and would rarely appear in 白話文 (vernacular writing).

lastly i believe that the simplification from 臺 to 台 occured in taiwan.

not asking you to change your article or anything, just my 5 cents.

Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese | 台灣 versus 臺灣 in Taiwan

Ying-Ju Fang — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:38:00 +0000

Forum: Translation Article Knowledgebase
Topic: Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Poster: Ying-Ju Fang
Post title: 台灣 versus 臺灣 in Taiwan

台灣 is now more commonly used in Taiwan as language is constantly evolving. :)

Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese | it's not a hk/tw diference

Jarosław Zawadzki — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:04:00 +0000

Forum: Translation Article Knowledgebase
Topic: Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Poster: Jarosław Zawadzki
Post title: it's not a hk/tw diference

the examples of tc as used in hk and tw that you are presenting are not at issue since they represent the words of two different languages: Tawanese Standard Mandarin and Hong Kong Cantonese.

Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese

ProZ.com Staff — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:18:42 +0000

Forum: Translation Article Knowledgebase
Topic: Article: Major misperceptions about traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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