Who cares about Mandarin is 300 years old or 400? It has the mandate of the Chinese people, no? China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. No? Chinese people support Mandarin as the official spoken language of the Chinese. Now, whats your problem with that??
Dialects like hokkien and hakka sounded like middle chinese? So what? Mind telling me so what? Did the Chinese people choose Hokkien or other dialect as official spoken language? No. They choose Mandarin, so what is your problem with that, I don't get it.
I support the Mandarin as official spoken language of the Chinese. That is a universal policy by the Chinese. Its not an exclusive PAP policy! When did I support the PAP policies blindly??
i know you are losing the argument but surely you can have something better to say.
Mandarin have a mandate from the chinese meh? the chinese choose mandarin meh? which chinese? from which part of china? dun self snook yourself again and say whole of china hor?
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SIZE="5"]did you or your parents or grand parents or great grandparents in china vote in a referendum to use mandarin in place of their dialects? did all of them chose mandarin and say;" no more dialects for us"?[/SIZE]
the only person saying "chinese people support Mandarin as the official spoken language of the Chinese" is your PAP master. and you are regurgitating it like a good dog that you are.
if it is a universal chinese policy, then why do Taiwanese speak hokkien in their legislature and why do Donald Tsang speak cantonese on Hong Kong TV?
Answer la:
Mandarin is a 300 year old dialect.(TRUE / FALSE)
Dialects LIKE HOKKIEN, HAKKA AND CANTONESE which sounded LIKE and WERE descended from middle chinese are much older THAN MANDARIN. (TRUE / FALSE)
In future, CHAR JIG KAR promiseS not to swallow AND promote any pap policy without looking at facts. (YES/NO)