RE: Dropping the you? The Asian response to imperative voice. (was:Re: you or he/it)

["Joe Malin" <jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com>]

The lead article in the May 2006 issue of STC Technical Communications
discusses international technical communication and in particular
compares Chinese styles and standards to US ones.


	 Joe Malin
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Subject: RE: Dropping the you? The Asian response to imperative voice.
(was:Re: you or he/it)

Just asked a Chinese friend about this, because we like talking about
language stuff. He (who, by the way, does not work in documentation,
although he is a professional interpreter) said that it seems like they
do use the American style (sometimes they use the second person 'ni',
sometimes they suppress it. Sometimes, though less commonly, they use
the third person style).

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