2009-05-22 美国万花筒-3 专访新任美国驻华大使洪博培

美国之音美国万花筒 美国总统奥巴马提名共和党州长乔恩.亨茨曼、即洪博培为驻华大使。美国之音记者方正和陈博瑞2005年曾经对洪博培一家作过专访......

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[ONeilYu]

@jmnage yeah? Im pretty sure the Chinese ambassadors English sucks in comparison too.

Im actually impressed by him.

[nmanicke]

nice rack

[NaturalDoll4b]

That poor Asian girl is going to grow up so White Washed

[ubudog32]

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[wumingzi]

@TheTranceCartel (continues). Mandarin Chinese is the local Beijing dialect. More or less. After 1911, the Nationalist government of China promoted this dialect as the One National Language. Thus it became known as 普通話 -- putonghua or "the common language".

[wumingzi]

@TheTranceCartel : As they'd say on that Facebook thing, "it's complicated".

The word "Mandarin" isn't Chinese at all. Some people say it comes from 滿的人 (prounounced man-de-ren -- a weird way of saying "Manchus" the rulers of China from 1644-1911), but the OED says that's rubbish, and the use of the word predates 1644 in any event. It's a Sanskrit derivative meaning a minister or counselor.

Mandarin acquired this name because it was the language spoken by officials.

[ttiiyy]

@TheTranceCartel Are you serious? Think about this simple question: when's the term Putonghua created by the Chinese government? Mandarin's been used for a long time. WAY BEFORE the Chinese Communist Party invented this term Putonghua.

[MinisterAilingTongue]

@cerastes6 Sarcasm. Very original.

[cerastes6]

@MinisterAilingTongue You have a point. Being an intelligent, cultured individual is alien to most Americans.