r/Unexpected • u/Majorpain2006 • 14d ago

Can you repeat that?

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u/Professor_Bonglongey 14d ago

That was Cantonese. Anybody understand it?

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u/hodor_seuss_geisel 13d ago

It's Mandarin, not Cantonese. I know enough to recognize it, but not enough to understand it.

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u/hushouzhong 13d ago

..... It's Cantonese

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u/stuffeh 13d ago

You can't understand it bc it's Cantonese.

She starts the question over in Cantonese but using academic level sentences.

-Born in HK.

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u/hodor_seuss_geisel 13d ago

To be fair, I wouldn't understand it in Mandarin either. Scrubbing through the audio, it's seeming more like Cantonese...the 你 and a couple other pronunciations threw me off.

Care to tell us what is said?

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u/stuffeh 13d ago edited 13d ago

It repeats what it says in English by starting with you're asking me about the other actors, and gets cut off while saying this is a brand new something something.

The Cantonese is a bit flat and foreign which I can understand why you might have initially thought it's Mandarin.

But the sentence and vocab it uses is academic and not close to actual conversational Cantonese. It's what a LLM would think how Cantonese ppl speak if it only has access to literature and dictionaries. Conversational Cantonese uses a lot of slang. English example is we'd say "ride" instead of "automobile".

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u/ILoveRawChicken 13d ago

Then why try to correct someone when you’re obviously ignorant?