Saying Chinese wrong (spoonerisms)
A common error for native English speakers in speaking English is a spoonerism.
A "spoonerism" in English is when you say it wrongly, by swapping first letters.
"House & garden" is said "gouse & harden".
The first sounds are swapped between words.
This happens all the time, by accident when speaking. Usually you can just tell what they mean without thinking.
A native Chinese speaker told me that spoonerisms never happen in Chinese.
Even happen?
Maybe a little like wanting to say Hen Re (很热) & saying "RenHe" by mistake, or dage (大哥)--> ga de
Any comments?
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Risposte · 11
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This mistake is rare in Chinese because English words are made up of letters but Chinese characters are made up of strokes!
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sometimes we cannot distinguish between ‘L' and 'N'.
for example we want to say "ni3"(你) but make a mistake to say "li3"(里)
and some Cantonese might get involved in 'F' and 'H'
like saying "hua"(花) instead of "fa"(发)
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this is rare in China unless we speak too fast
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The answer is yes! Of course yes!
It never happen frequently in Chinese so many people may neglect it. But it do exist!
I have encountered that for serveral times. For example:
“吃一堑(pit)长一智(wit)”(A fall into the pit,a gain in your wit.) once was said so fluently without thinking that it became:“吃一智(wit)长一堑(pit)””(A fall into the wit,a gain in your pit.) !
That's really an interesting phenomenon in language! O(∩_∩)O~
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That's not true. We have this "spoonerism" anyway. I know because I have this kind of experience.
Usually it happens we you speak too fast.
But this is really rare.
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