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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://tooters.org/users/chunshek/statuses/111720736528891853">Chunshek Chan :flying_toaster: (chunshek@tooters.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 01:47:11 JST</a><a href="https://tooters.org/@chunshek" title="chunshek@tooters.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/230538-48-20240108164140.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Chunshek Chan :flying_toaster:" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Chunshek Chan :flying_toaster:</a><div><a href="https://tooters.org/@chunshek/111720735625371808" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>• Modal particles: Due to tonality, moods cannot be conveyed with pitch changes alone. Modal particles mark different emotions, but are unintelligible between different Sinitic languages. Some examples in Cantonese:</p><p>食飯[aː˥] (invite) Let's eat.<br>食飯[aː˧] (statement) I'm eating.<br>食飯[aː˩] (rhetorical question) Are you eating?<br>食飯[kwaː˧] (speculation) I guess he's eating.<br>食飯[laː˧] (change of state) Time to eat!<br>食飯[laː˩] (confirmation) Time to eat yet?<br>食飯[ʦaː˧] ("just") I'm just eating. (11/13)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2559405#notice-5067371">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-01-09T01:47:11+09:00" title="Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 01:47:11 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://tooters.org/@chunshek/111720736528891853" rel="external" title="Sent from tooters.org via ActivityPub">tooters.org</a></span></span><a href="https://tooters.org/@chunshek/111720736528891853">permalink</a></footer></blockquote>

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Chunshek Chan :flying_toaster: (chunshek@tooters.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 01:47:11 JST Chunshek Chan :flying_toaster:
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• Modal particles: Due to tonality, moods cannot be conveyed with pitch changes alone. Modal particles mark different emotions, but are unintelligible between different Sinitic languages. Some examples in Cantonese:
食飯[aː˥] (invite) Let's eat.
食飯[aː˧] (statement) I'm eating.
食飯[aː˩] (rhetorical question) Are you eating?
食飯[kwaː˧] (speculation) I guess he's eating.
食飯[laː˧] (change of state) Time to eat!
食飯[laː˩] (confirmation) Time to eat yet?
食飯[ʦaː˧] ("just") I'm just eating. (11/13)
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