re: #225 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Half my team at work is from China, which included my director until she was laid off during covid cutbacks. They’d often switch to Mandarin, and I didn’t pick up a single word of the language. Tonal languages are just too alien to me.
Right. Personally, I would be afraid to use the incorrect tones and thus to insult someone incidentally …
And don’t start me on the beautiful but deadly writing system. /