[2377] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Chinese education in HK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelvin Leung)
Sat Feb 22 13:56:38 1992
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Date: 22 Feb 92 17:44:14 GMT
acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (A. Cheng) writes:
>In article <s6883289.698633837@titan.ucc.umass.edu>, s6883289@ucc.umass.edu (Peter Hawkins) writes:
>>In article <#bdhk0nwongi@netcom.com> wongi@netcom.com (Isaac Wong) writes:
>>>Well, I agree I found it hard to learn English in the beginning. However, now
>>>that English is reasonably good, I find it easier to express certain things in
>>>English than Cantonese but sometimes it's the opposite. Doesn't that show
>>>both languages have their insuffiencies?
>>
>>perhaps you don't know either one well enough? :-)
>Hm... A native speaker does not know his own language well? I thought
>that happens in U.S. public schools only. :-)
>>actually, I suspect that you're too lazy to find out the equivalent expressions
>>for the other language. when you learn something new in English, you accept it
>>without thinking how to express the same in Cantonese and vice versa.
>I assume you must be a hard working guy. Tell me how to express "ye"
>in today's English. And since you proclaim your advance Chinese
>language ability, would you like to express "nerd", "geek", and "cool"
>in chinese please?
I agree with Mr. Cheng. I don't think expressing ideas in English while
speaking in Cantonese is a bad thing. Laziness is not a fact either.
Depends on situation, trying to express everything in Chinese may even
hinder the efficiency of communication. Think, for example, when you are trying
to explain a computer system to a Chinese... now there... try to explain
what "bit," byte, slot, CPU speed in Chinese... see if the guy understand.
(oh, and don't forget sine, cosine, Taylor's series and all those terms
necessarily to give a full explanation).
I don't mean to offend you, Peter. I hope you understand what we are
trying to say. One more thing, next time, please be a little easier on us...
the way you expressed your opinion is hard of harsh. (forgive me if I said
that wrong)
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