Originally Posted by Jcubed
Originally Posted by Valsdad
Never tried to really learn it, but I know Chinese is very tonal.

"ma" with different tones means a lot of different things.

I don't do well with diacritical marks, but I found a web page that explains what I heard a Chinese person explain once;

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/chinese/chinese-ma/

at my age I'd rather go back and refresh my Italian skills than attempt Chinese, and that probably holds for Korean.


You can quickly call your "host mom" a horse and a few other things with "ma."

Ymmv

Eta: didn't read the link before posting...sorry!
Ha ha,

I think that's what the Chinese person was explaining the one time I heard that discussion!

The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)

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