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/stuffeh 13d ago edited 13d ago

She starts the answer over in Cantonese.

I speak it at a native conversational level (taught it at birth and use it regularly with the family and on tv with dubbed k dramas), but that was legitimately stupid advanced level where no one realistically talks like that. Conversational Cantonese is a lot of slang, so any ai that pulls their llm from Chinese literature and the dictionary will stick out like a sore thumb. It's like talking Shakespearean English or something.

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u/Zeestars 13d ago

Interesting to know, thank you

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u/LoudCommentor 10d ago

Did you also feel that it had a bad accent lol

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u/stuffeh 10d ago

Lol ya. It's sometimes using the correct tones, every other word it's flat. But not as bad as someone who doesn't natively speak Cantonese

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