The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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Literary Chinese is not the same language as Mandarin or Cantonese. Google Translate copes better with Literary texts than if you were trying to put Latin into the Portuguese translator because of the logographic nature of the text and the fact that Literary turns of phrase are much more current in China than Latin ones are in countries that speak Romance languages, but the language of the SBJ is emphatically not the language that Google Translate is trained to work with. You cannot rely on it for work with text in Literary Chinese.