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Re: Can the Chinese language express more things in XMLthan ca

  • From: Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net>
  • To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
  • Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:35:18 -0500

Re:  Can the Chinese language express more things in XMLthan ca
On 2/11/2023 11:52 PM, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
For English, imagine most of our sentences were formed by saying "Now let's talk about X: ..."  Which is kinda how Japanese "wa" operates: you clearly establish the topic X, then make your statement or question etc about it.
And in Japanese, you don't usually know if the sentence is a question, statement, etc until the end of the sentence is reached. This feature makes it hard to communicate in Japanese when the comm channel is unreliable, as the telephone used to be even in the 1950s and later. So Japanese speakers used to repeat sentence fragments, repeatedly asking if the listener understood the last bit.

Whether the same is true for Chinese I don't know.



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