Re: Languages in China's Fujian and Taiwan


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Dung Ping wrote:
>
>> Thanks all for information. The other day I had lunch at a Chinese
>> restaurant. The waitress is from Taiwan, and cashier young man from
>> Fujian Provicne, China. But they talked to each other in a language I
>> don't understand. In the U.S., most people of Fujian are from the
>> Fuzhou area. So I thought the cashier was from a place near Fuzhou.
>> He told me, in mandarin, that his language is 98% same as the
>> waitress's. The waitress told me she is native Taiwan, and speaks both
>> mandarin and local languages.
>>
>> Tomorrow I will go there again to ask.
>
> If the food's good, you should tell us where it is.

I guess you're familiar with the saying, "one man's meat...." ;-)

Dyl.



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