Mandarin is actually the Beijing dialect of the overall group of languages spoken in many parts of China. ... In Mainland China, Mandarin is referred to as Putonghua (普通话), literally "the common language".

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Mandarin is a form of the Chinese language. Some call it a dialect. Chinese is an umbrella language term that encompasses multiple dialects/languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and more. When you look at it closely, there are actually over 200 dialects of Chinese!

Better explanation

Here’s its etymology

So idk of your foreigner presumption is correct

no

talk to a Chinese person

and ask them the Chinese word they use

Mate I’ve spoken Chinese for 5 years

the term Mandarin is something foreigners use

I don't care if you've spoken Chinese for 10 years

same thing as believing what NASA is real when its not

Woah woah woah

That’s a fallacy right there

the lounge is not for debates

Post hoc fallacy

smoked ham hocs

If I believe that mandarin wasn’t used be foreigners, then I must believe nada is real when it’s fake

and illogical phallus

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just like Chinese people don't call Confucius, Confucius

Lol no they have a word for him

孔子

It’s latinzed

*latinized

more word magick

His writings are pretty cool

Haven’t read all of them though

Yes very funny

How come how have these quotes all fancy

We kinda adapted the Chinese character to our own

( 551–479 bc ) , Chinese philosopher; Latinized name of Kongfuzi ( K'ung Fu-tzu ) “Kong the master.” His ideas about the importance of practical moral values, collected by his disciples in the Analects , formed the basis of the philosophy known as Confucianism.

Kinda cool actually

He has all those screenshots because he just takes pictures of things he says and uses a font

Not bad

Maybe I should make some