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To: Fuzz

There’s nothing ungrammatical about “They don’t speak good Chinese.”

“Good Chinese” refers to standard, grammatical Chinese, and is perfectly fine to use.

Perhaps you are confusing “I don’t speak good English” with I don’t speak English well,” two similar sentences that can have very different meanings.


97 posted on 08/06/2013 7:12:44 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

So you are saying that they speak Chinese, but the equivalent of a ‘ghetto’ version of Chinese and speak that dialect well?


98 posted on 08/06/2013 7:20:12 AM PDT by Fuzz
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