Untranslated Mandarin on the site. Polite request.

[Steviebike]

Pandra esowgh talkya eus gwir.

What you are talking about is true.

[Confuzius]

אני חושב שכולכם מועד משוגעים

[Dragonbones]

Some style nazis will tell you that a people (eg., the English) should have a capital letter, but a language (eg., english) should not.

Those people would be dead wrong.

[superking]

Some style nazis will tell you that a people (eg., the English) should have a capital letter, but a language (eg., english) should not.

Those people would be dead wrong.

Agree with DB. What I was trying to say was that you can't write the whole word in capital letters. Try it yourself.

Mandarin. See. Nope. That whole word was written in caps.

M A N D A R I N. I beat you, computer!

[finley]

Some style nazis will tell you that a people (eg., the English) should have a capital letter, but a language (eg., english) should not.

Those people would be dead wrong.

Yeah, seems weird to me too. It's a proper noun, so it gets capitalized. Just something I've heard from time to time and wondered if it might be programmed into the autochecker. Anyway, I misunderstood what superking was saying (as above). Dunno why we have an autocorrect anyway, especially since half the people here are teachers and ought to be able to spell.

[Confuzius]

Mandarin

oh wow, super weird

[ceevee369]

Done testing.
I now remember that this is the Forumosa "build-in auto corrector" who's doing this tric.
Try to put some names of towns being slight uncorrect and you'll see what happens

BELGIAN
DUTCH
Mandarin
TAIWANESE

[urodacus]

Mandarin is not always a proper noun.

It can be used for "boffins, learned people, those in the know, experts on a topic or in a position of bureaucratic authority", etc, and that's where the word as the descriptor of the language of the court bureaucracy came from.

Perhaps.

There's also "mandarins", as in oranges from China, though some spell that with a terminal letter 'e'.

BUt on topic.

Stop using bloody Mandarin-only quotes because the vast majority of punters on 'ere can't understand and won't be able to for ever (and couldn't be assed learning Chinese either). It's plain rude. If you can read it well enough to know what it's talking about, then post a friggin translation.

[jimipresley]

Stop using bloody Mandarin-only quotes because the vast majority of punters on 'ere can't understand and won't be able to for ever (and couldn't be assed learning Chinese either). It's plain rude. If you can read it well enough to know what it's talking about, then post a friggin translation.

They could start their own show-off thread where they write to each other in Chinese and have monthly competitions to see who's the most "assimilated".

[superking]

Stop using bloody Mandarin-only quotes because the vast majority of punters on 'ere can't understand and won't be able to for ever (and couldn't be assed learning Chinese either). It's plain rude. If you can read it well enough to know what it's talking about, then post a friggin translation.

They could start their own show-off thread where they write to each other in Chinese and have monthly competitions to see who's the most "assimilated".

I'm not so sure it's about showing off or intellectual snobbery. Some newer posters are able to converse fluently in both languages, but the majority of us just see squiggly lines and incomprehensible sections of posts. As this is an English forum it would be polite if these squiggly squares could be translated into something more meaningful for the majority. It just hasn't been pointed out (or rammed down their throats as in the old days) that this would be appreciated.