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[Zwy]

Then you should know not to call it the caymen’s

I'll call is plural as I wish.

. Also not sure why it’s laughable as Cayman has one of the highest cost of living on the planet. Imagine having that plus income taxes? That would be laughable policy.

The reason everything is high is due to all the tariffs. It is laughable because you are complaining about the US tariffs on imports, just like the Caymen's.

 

[billvon]

I will bet the farm you met ABSOLUTELY ZERO citizens in China that couldn't speak Chinese or any other country for that matter.

Is that a joke?

Only about 70% of Chinese people speak Mandarin. The rest speak Cantonese. They are not the same language. They cannot understand each other.

It's like thinking that French and English are the same language because they are both Canadian.

 

[CaySol]

I'll call is plural as I wish.

The reason everything is high is due to all the tariffs. It is laughable because you are complaining about the US tariffs on imports, just like the Caymen's.

It’s your right to be wrong and disrespectful. It’s also your right to completely miss the point I was making. I wasn’t complaining about your cost of living going up. I was just pointing it out as a fact. At least you understand what a tariff is so you are ahead of many people.

In the Cayman Islands we don’t have income taxes at all. So the import duties(tariffs) is the way how the government pays for things like infrastructure etc.

 

[Dave911]

Is that a joke?

Only about 70% of Chinese people speak Mandarin. The rest speak Cantonese. They are not the same language. They cannot understand each other.

It's like thinking that French and English are the same language because they are both Canadian.

Thats what I found out. The guys I was working with in China couldnt understand each other. At all. I noticed it. And it was causing issues. They ended up speaking in English to each other, which was helpful for us but a bit difficult for them. There are at least 8 variations/dialects of "Chinese". Great people. I really enjoyed working with them

 

[HighDesertOffgrid]

So when do I get your farm?

As soon as you demonstrate Mandarin dialects are any different than the northern Midwest saying "pop" and the rest of the country saying "soda" while parts of Oklahoma and Texas still ask what kind of "coke" you want when ordering a Coke. Or a "biker" being a motorcyclist or a bicyclist.
Look how multilingual you are now. I've taught you two new languages in 30 seconds! How about an 'awl' change at jiffy lube?
Damn dude, I've made you a dyed-in-the-wool polyglot! The least you could do is say: "Kam-som-knee-dah" (loosly translated that means "I this ass-kicking" in Lakota Sioux).

 

[teal95]

From my understanding the Chinese language variations aren't dialects, they are completely distinct languages, at least when spoken. However the written language is the same for all of China.

 

[ctid]

What is your point? People learn what they need to in order to function in a given society.
I know some Korean, some Chinese/Mandarin, some Greek, some German, some French, some Russian and a fair amount of Spanish (California's majority language and all). Others as well.
If I expected to spend anything more than a brief vacation in a country with a primary language other than my own, I would prioritize learning it.
I will bet the farm you met ABSOLUTELY ZERO citizens in China that couldn't speak Chinese or any other country for that matter. Yet the US has millions that can only function with assistance in the Ghettos where they reside.
The very fact that most other nations know basic English is simply a testament to the fact they NEED to know it in order to function well.
Putting aside languages, how many people in the entire world could explain Ohm's law to you? 0.001%... maybe? Ask your Chinese waiter the next time you are in-country.

...Oops, dropped the mic.

I've read this a few times now and I am still non the wiser as to what your point is.

Let me pick that mic up for you, I'm not quite sure why you felt the need to drop it...

 

[HighDesertOffgrid]

I've read this a few times now and I am still non the wiser as to what your point is.

Let me pick that mic up for you, I'm not quite sure why you felt the need to drop it...

Perfect example!
The phrase is NONE the wiser. Yet I know exactly what you were trying to convey. Why is that?

 

[Zwy]

In the Cayman Islands we don’t have income taxes at all. So the import duties(tariffs) is the way how the government pays for things like infrastructure etc.

I already knew this was the case in the Cayman Islands, yet if the US was to do it, it is somehow a bad thing. During Trump's presidential campaign, he did an interview (with Tucker Carlson IIRC) and he stated then he wanted to move more towards tariffs and no income taxes. In the process, he would create incentives for companies to move to the US or move back.

Ask who/why would oppose this if other countries already operate this way.

 

[CaySol]

I already knew this was the case in the Cayman Islands, yet if the US was to do it, it is somehow a bad thing. During Trump's presidential campaign, he did an interview (with Tucker Carlson IIRC) and he stated then he wanted to move more towards tariffs and no income taxes. In the process, he would create incentives for companies to move to the US or move back.

Ask who/why would oppose this if other countries already operate this way.

This is a long discussion but basically using tariffs to raise money for governmental functions and using tariffs to spur local manufacturing is two different things entirely. You can’t really do both at the same time as the latter needs targeted tariffs and the former needs broad based ones.
As is, if you just raise the cost of living for the entire population, you take disposable income spending out of the system so local businesses have less customer spending to have growth.
All these things are connected so it’s not great that the person making the policies doesn’t understand how they are.
Crashing the bond market and the stock market at the same time also hurts capital investment in the US.
So when you understand what people are actually opposing it starts to make a lot of sense.

 

[Dave911]

As soon as you demonstrate Mandarin dialects are any different than the northern Midwest saying "pop" and the rest of the country saying "soda" while parts of Oklahoma and Texas still ask what kind of "coke" you want when ordering a Coke. Or a "biker" being a motorcyclist or a bicyclist.
Look how multilingual you are now. I've taught you two new languages in 30 seconds! How about an 'awl' change at jiffy lube?
Damn dude, I've made you a dyed-in-the-wool polyglot! The least you could do is say: "Kam-som-knee-dah" (loosly translated that means "I this ass-kicking" in Lakota Sioux).

It's pretty obvious you don't know what you are talking about. But please, keep trying to impress.
It's not Pop or Soda. The Chinese guys I was talking with explained it clearly. They simply can't understand each other.
You mentioned Mandarin in one of your earlier posts. So you know they are different. You just didn't know "how" different.
You bet the farm. You lost.