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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I don’t speak Bân-lâm-gú unfortunately. I just looked up those words, and they do sound slightly different!

    • 在: tsāi
    • 再: tsài
    • 應該: ing-kai
    • 因: in

    (For Chinese learners reading this, please note that the tone markers in the romanization of Bân-lâm-gú (Southern Min, a group of languages including Hokkien, Taiwanese, etc.) is different from those used in Pinyin for Mandarin.)

    I also looked up how these words are pronounced in Cantonese. They sure are really different! Mandarin really does have a lot more pairs of homophones and near-homophones compared to other dialects.

    On a semi-related note, I think it’s really sad that the majority of Chinese dialects are slowly being replaced by Mandarin.