Actually, there's nothing funny in the song. what funny is the way they sing. Ok, what this vedio says is: " I want to tell you something, I really want to tell you something, and it only contains three words. That's I love you. Then it starts to sing, love you, love you , I love you.. there's what it says'
Remember that linguists (historical linguists, to be more specific) are working from a Western (and thus fundamentally Eurocentric) perspective. They're trying to change that, but it's not easy to shift paradigms. So, the so-called "Indo-European" languages have received a massive amount of attention relative to the other language families.
Had we been in a non-Western historical linguistic paradigm, that question may have well been posed as "English, Spanish, & French are dialects of this"
Because there are multiple dialects that fall under that domain? I'm pretty sure saying a specific language would make more sense (traditional/simplified/mandarin Chinese).
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"I love you" from Legend of The Condor Heroes (1983)
(It's in Mandarin for anyone who's wondering)
I will use one sentence , I'll be honest with you
using poems with my heart to propose to you
Please my lady, please listen to me , listen to my line
Hope you will not be angry
actually my every single , every single , every single line only has 3 words
only has 3 words
1 , 2 , 3 , OH~~~~~~
I LOVE YOU ..................... .
I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU YOU YOU , I LOVE YOU
We all, We all Say one word We All We All don't have to show sour face , We all We all Say one word
to you, OH Say one word!
Let me to you to you to you to you to you happily say
Proudly say
I love you love you love you ~~~~~~~
i don't know much about the chinese language (except for being chinese myself), but i guess there's no such thing as "chinese" since if you tell somebody to speak chinese, there is no actual singular "chinese" language. there are many many many dialects, including the two best known ones, mandarin and cantonese, which while still being "chinese", are totally different from each other and if you understand one you cannot understand the other. (for example, i speak cantonese, and if you speak to me in mandarin, i will have no clue what you're saying .. they are totally different). so if you asked me if i spoke chinese, i'd say yes, since i do speak a chinese dialect. but if you asked me to say a sentence in chinese, i'd have to ask you to be more specific, since there is no "actual" chinese language.
but the written parts are the same, it is just that when it comes to speaking the language, the words are pronounced totally differently.
anyway apart from being chinese i don't actually know that much about the history of the language or the finer aspects and details of it all, this is just my own personal understanding of why there is no specific chinese language.
I'm pretty sure that's Mandarin? Sounds like that to me since I'm Cantonese and besides a random few words that sound mando to me I don't understand it lol!
Edit: Listening to it more (while it kills my brain cells) I'm almost 100% sure it's Mandarin lol~
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