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There's this chinese take-out and dine-in restaurant that I occasionally go to. Sometimes the chinese chef and his wife yell at each other in chinese. Since I don't understand chinese, I can't tell whether they're arguing or not. Is it normal?
It's just Cantonese, man. Mandarin, on the other hand, sounds elegant and beautiful.
Maybe, because Chinese speak accustomed on loud voice that's makes you feel that they are kind arguing...
some asian languages sound ridiculously loud. one for sure is cantonese. at first, i couldn't tell if they arguing or not. now, i kinda used to it. i'm asian too, i hate it when i hear my own voice over the speaker phone. my friend used to put me on speaker phone while talking. i can hear my own voice, it sounds strangely weird. can't do phone sex if you have a bad accent. argh... can't even pretend to sound cute ;(
Oh I had a similar incident while dining in. Thinking they were aguring - I kindly asked them if things were ok. Both replied that they were just discussing about tonight's menu.
So I have came to the conclusion that one's preception of an angry tone will probably won't apply to another language.
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