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About Chinese: Simplified or Traditional?
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That would be interesting Oct 4, 2010

Sorry, my Cantonese is terrible, I don't have a hope of finding such a text. But are you really saying that books and articles written in Hong Kong for Hong Kong readers still write in Mandarin?
 
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Madarin and Catonese are all just oral languages. Oct 5, 2010

TransAfrique wrote:

Sorry, my Cantonese is terrible, I don't have a hope of finding such a text. But are you really saying that books and articles written in Hong Kong for Hong Kong readers still write in Mandarin?


There are only two writing systems of Chinese: Traditional and Simplified, and the difference between them is just some characters of the simplified system are chosen from the traditional form and standardized.
Cantonese is a "regional dialect", and Mandarin is an "official dialect" , there never exists Cantonese of Mandarin writing form.


[Edited at 2010-10-05 16:16 GMT]
 
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