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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
That’s interesting to know. I must have misunderstood this in conversation classes in English for migrants learning the language - which could well be the case as of course the students’ English was of course limited.
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My apologies if I seemed a little overly tense about this, my reactions may have been coloured by interactions with non-MSM speaking Chinese friends who feel VERY passionately about this, and also by regular reading of
Dr Victor Mair's frequent lengthy posts on matters Sinophone on the excellent languagelog site.