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oldherl | 1 year ago

You are right. This assumes Mandarin. Given the constraints and so many compromises I've taken, this isn't too bad a stretch. After all, all other dialects in Mainland China are seldom used in written text, especially in the field of technology. Mandarin is the one and only go-to option. I am not judging whether this is good or not, but it is the current situation of Chinese languages.

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Dalewyn|1 year ago

Kind of like Japanese where dialects can be different enough to be mutually incompatible but are all written using Japanese, and the national dialect/lingua franca is "Hyoujun-go" (literally "Standard Language") based almost entirely off of the Tokyo dialect which itself is a subset of the Kanto dialect.