07-07-2026, 04:36 AM
(07-07-2026, 03:21 AM)rikforto wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[The first line] is not a one-for-one syllable reading of that recipe in modern Cantonese and the second line is not grammatically correct modern Cantonese.
Can you be more specific? Point out some of the errors?
Quote:Does that help? Does that advance the conversation?
The question is whether the proposed Dictation Scenario is plausible or not. Specifically, whether the Author would have believed that his phonetic recording of whatever the Dictator read out loud would be of any use when he got back to Europe. Do you think he would have realized that this idea would not work, and thus he would have given up on it? Why?

