Comment by pjc50

Comment by pjc50 3 days ago

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It's entirely a joke based on the two different versions of "Chinese" offered on most websites, it's not really meant to be taken seriously. But I've heard that there's an island in New England somewhere whose local accent is closest to Elizabethan English.

npongratz 3 days ago

Tangier Island off of Virginia, in the Chesapeake:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180206-the-tiny-us-isla...

Also, for what it's worth:

> Some people have characterised Tangier’s way of speaking as ‘Elizabethan’ or ‘Restoration’ English, but that’s nonsense. Languages aren’t static and the Tangier dialect has changed a lot because of its isolation. It’s a distinct creation of its own," Shores said.

watwut 3 days ago

Yeah, but there is a real difference between simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Traditional are more ornamental/complicated while simplified are ... simplified/minimalist .