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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5456426, member: 110504&quot;][USER=102103]@The Eidolon[/USER], I can&#039;t speak an honest word of Chinese, in any dialect, although I have an uncle who spent a couple of years teaching English in the &quot;Yale In China&quot; program, from which he learned fluent (...by me, anyway) Cantonese.&nbsp; Your point about the lack of inflection in various Chinese dialects, over the expanses of geography and time, has to make me wonder: is that at least partly because the language, as spoken, is tonal?&nbsp; ...In other words, along the lines of how different tonalities can make an ostensibly identical word morph into another one, can that affect grammatical connotations as well?</p><p>...If it wasn&#039;t suitably apparent, it&#039;s more like, Honest, I Really Don&#039;t Know!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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