Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese

[Yuan Fu]

> On Oct 22, 2020, at 2:45 AM, Mingde (Matthew) Zeng <matthewzmd@posteo.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> This email brings me to look at the etc/HELLO file for the first time.
> 
> As a Chinese myself, I must point out that there is virtually _no_ Chinese 
> who would say "早晨, 你好" when they greet someone, regardless of whether they 
> speak Mandarin or Cantonese. Although it is technically correct, it is 
> _super_ weird for someone to say it this way.

早晨 is a common greeting for Cantonese, and 你好 for Mandarin. I don’t see much 
problem in it.

> 
> Basically the meaningful difference between Mandarin and Cantonese on paper 
> is that the former uses simplified Chinese and the latter uses traditional 
> Chinese. Fortuntaely, when it comes to greet someone, both mandarin and 
> cantonese use "你好", which is the same in both simplified and traditional.

早晨 is common for Cantonese speakers, AFAIK.

Yuan