Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese

[Mingde (Matthew) Zeng]

>> I have contacts in Taiwan who can tell us.

Verify with a Taiwan native speaker if you really want to invest more time on 
this, but I'll be 99.98% sure that he/she won't have a problem with "你好". In 
fact, Taiwan folks write Traditioanl Chinese as well, but speak a local 
dialect, which is not of our concern here.

> But I'd like to reiterate what I said earlier: I would only remove my
> objections for changing this part of HELLO if I hear from a
> representative enough group of native Chinese speakers from both sides
> of the divide that some change will be acceptable to them, and cause
> no controversies on either side.  With all due respect, people who
> voiced their opinions in this matter till now cannot be considered
> such a group.  In particular, none of them stated his/her country of
> origin and current place of living, nor the cultural group to which he
> or she belongs, which makes judging the opinions harder.

Well, I am a native Mandarin speaker from Guangdong China, where a very large 
portion of the people speaks Cantonese, and I currently live in Canada.

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Mingde (Matthew) Zeng