Talk:Cantonese grammar

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Hong Kong To-do: edit purge Clean up all MTR station pages. They are literally all over the place. Two model pages are Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. They each describe a feature special to the station, Station layout, exit, and connections, as well as neighbouring stations and the station "box". We will also need plenty of updated pictures (e.g. removing all KCR-related images except those on the KCR article). Check that all pages have basically the same language structure as Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. Links to location maps are good too. (Should also perform these checks on Chinese Wikipedia.) Clean-up pages that link with TVB, especially its series pages.

I was led to believe that 依 ji1 is an older form of saying "this". Is this true?

No. It is not older form. — HenryLi (Talk) 10:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

There should be a section on sentence aspect and how it is conveyed with particles.

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[edit] general comment

The most important thing is: Cantonese grammar is almost identical to that of Mandarin, which is well covered in Chinese grammar. Yes, there're differences between Mandarin and Cantonese in aspect markers, and in some cases even word order, but the most significant differences between Cantonese and Mandarin lie in vocabulary and sound, not really in grammar. This way one can write an grammar article on every Chinese spoken variant. For Cantonese-speaking wikipedians, the most dangerous, and surely the most tempting, thing is exaggerating the unique-ness of Cantonese. Perhaps what we need to do for this article is only to mention the few grammatical differences between Mandarin and Cantonese.--K.C. Tang 08:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello, i am a Gwai lo and I can speak cantonese but dont understand mandarine, its like saying that german and english are very similar, or French and Italian, they are in grammer with a few differences and a lot of words are similar (Sea/Sea, Heal/Healen etc). I think this should be expanded as an independant language. Enlil Ninlil 17:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

the grammatical difference between German and English (say, the word order), or that between Italian and French (say, that the former is pro-drop), is way much greater than that between Cantonese and Mandarin...--K.C. Tang 08:11, 22 September 2006 (UTC)