
32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
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Cantonese: A Different Writing System
Cantonese has a different set of characters that are different from the traditional or simplified written Chinese. There is also another difference. The Cantonese characters are not really standardized. Sometimes they just pick up some characters to write down the dialect, but it is not standardized. That's similar to what Israeli was saying about the transcript. He said that sometimes he was unsure of what to write because it's not standardized.
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