Has China Crashed?

[william the wie]

China is going to hit the wall. No common language.

Just because many languages are spoken does not mean there is no common language. There is.

Calling mutually unintelligible speech, dialects, doesn't cut it. Spanish and Italian are generally mutually intelligible but last I checked they were considered separate languages.

 

[Indeependent]

China is going to hit the wall. No common language.

Just because many languages are spoken does not mean there is no common language. There is.

Calling mutually unintelligible speech, dialects, doesn't cut it. Spanish and Italian are generally mutually intelligible but last I checked they were considered separate languages.

I thought Bullet In Head was spoken everywhere.

 

[Decus]

China is going to hit the wall. No common language.

Just because many languages are spoken does not mean there is no common language. There is.

An official language absolutely, but difficulty communicating in China continues to be a problem:

“More than 400 million Chinese are unable to speak the national language, Mandarin, and large numbers in the rest of the country speak it badly, state news media said Thursday as the government began another push for linguistic unity.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/world/asia/china-400-million-cannot-speak-mandarin.html?_r=0

“China's ruling Communist Party has promoted Mandarin for decades to unite a nation with thousands of often mutually unintelligible dialects and numerous minority languages, but has been hampered by the country's size and lack of investment in education, especially in poor rural areas.”

“The promotion of Mandarin has long been a contentious issue in China, despite the practical benefits of having the entire population fluent in one tongue, and in some cases has lead to violent unrest.”

Say what? China says 400 million can't speak national language | Reuters
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[william the wie]

China has slowed that way down on the execution vans. Mao's restoration of Legalism, used first by the predecessor of the Han dynasty, the Chin or Qin has largely been discarded.

 

[william the wie]

Mandarin is also associated with religious persecution.