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just an article...you are really a circus clown... somebody write an article is proof for you but you cannot use your brain to reason and think logically? but chinese you can read anot...cannot read dun act blur hor...

if you read his posts, he has not offered any suggestion as to how the two can co-exist but he is quick to slam dialects and he is suggesting to me that mandarin alone is sufficient to connect to one's roots but he does not understand mandarin is a spoken language while chinese is a written...

mandarin is not the language which the tao de ching is written..... the language is old chinese.....you see the same chinese characters and only that has not changed, your argument leads to the conclusion that we only need to learn chinese characters and we can learn it in any language but still...

關關雎鳩 在河之洲 窈窕淑女 君子好逑 參差荇菜 左右流之 窈窕淑女 寤寐求之 求之不得 寤寐思服 悠哉悠哉 輾轉反側 參差荇菜 左右采之 窈窕淑女 琴瑟友之 參差荇菜 左右芼之 窈窕淑女 鐘鼓樂之 there are no rhymes in this poem if you read it in mandarin, you either dunno chinese or is telling another white lie or you are just too much of a philistine to appreciate your mother...

here's the proof read this in mandarin and hokkien 關關雎鳩 在河之洲 窈窕淑女 君子好逑 參差荇菜 左右流之 窈窕淑女 寤寐求之 求之不得 寤寐思服 悠哉悠哉 輾轉反側 參差荇菜 左右采之 窈窕淑女 琴瑟友之 參差荇菜 左右芼之 窈窕淑女 鐘鼓樂之 oh sorry, you dunno chinese hor....how you hear the differences?

dun use f word la, it shows you are frustrated and conceding defeat ....alto there is no doubt as to that :rolleyes:

sounds good issit? you know what it sounds like in mandarin anot? tell uncle which lines rhymes in one stanza

oh btw, am i still a cantonese supremacist? LOL or am i a hokkien supremacist now?

this one too 「有物混成，先天地生，惟象無形，窈窈冥冥，寂寥淡漠，不聞其聲，吾強為之名，字之曰道。」

you just did by not denying i am your uncle ...you only asking me when not that i am not...thank you

i waiting for your reply to this hor....pls dun pretend pretend and siam this one again

pls dun use translator la....LOL who writes chinese like this in singapore? tell uncle what this means and how it reads if you know chinese....dun tell me it rhymes again in mandarin hor.... 關關雎鳩 在河之洲 窈窕淑女 君子好逑 參差荇菜 左右流之 窈窕淑女 寤寐求之 求之不得 寤寐思服 悠哉悠哉 輾轉反側 參差荇菜 左右采之 窈窕淑女 琴瑟友之 參差荇菜 左右芼之...

your simple question does not have a simple answer, of course you are too simple-minded to realise that, uncle has to teach you and answer slowly for you so that u can understand and digest properly rather than jump to conclusion and quicky ask uncke for case closed......anyway, i am still...

then how come you cannot read the chinese from shijing? cos you only found english translation of tao de jing issit?

simple question like whether you can read mandarin anot, some people oso cannot answer leh....

funny leh when did i say both versions cannot recite in mandarin? just as you can recite this in malay and english, both version can be recited in mandarin if you have a translation....the version we have thought was the tao te ching was in fact a mandarin translation and is inaccurate...if...

one cannot translate tao te ching without a mandarin translation too.... and mandarin translation does not sound like correct old chinese version.... uncle dun answer stupid questions from stupid ppl....thats the difference between genius and fools, the latter tries to be like genius but are...

yes you can recite them in english, malay and tamil too

mandarin created two versions ..... we would have lost the correct verison if we did not have a lucky archeological find and knowledge of old chinese

thanks for accepting that we have different versions. whether you recite in mandarin or english does not matter but original meaning would have been lost thanks to use of mandarin, if not for accidental archaeological find, the old chinese version would be lost and unknown. all of use would be...