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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365828" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pu Tong Hua</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">English is simple, it flitters from the tongue, <br>It means what it says when all’s said and done, <br>No matter how we say it, stress it or declaim, <br>In English it always means the same, same, same! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chinese is difficult, your ‘Pu Tong Hua’, <br>Is drawn in little pictures that go back so-o-o far, <br>And every one’s a concept, with no strict meanings<br>Making it impossible to delve your gleanings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As often as I study, and try as I might, <br>I can’t get your xiang xing’s or qing qing’s right.<br>There isn’t any gender; there isn’t any tense, <br>So how can your past, present, future, make sense? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then when I’ve mastered some simple Chinese<br>You say: ‘That’s fine – but it’s Wenzhou-nese, <br>Nobody in Guangzhou, Wuhan or Beijing<br>Would understand a pennyworth of what you’re saying! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every city’s dialect differs from the main, <br>Canton-ese, Shanghai-nese, nothing is the same.<br>Beijing has its Mandarin, the old ‘Pu Tong Hua’, <br>But it’s not what you’ll hear in a Wenzhou bar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So don’t look for sympathy with adjectives and pauses, <br>Proper nouns or pronouns, adverbial clauses, <br>Your cousin’s not your brother, and a ‘she’s’ not a ‘him’, <br>But how do I tell you in your old Mandarin? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">4 April 2006</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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It means what it says when all’s said and done, 
No matter how we say it, stress it or declaim, 
In English it always means the same, same, same! 

Chinese is difficult, your ‘Pu Tong Hua’, 
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