Future = blend of chinese and english.

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This was the world that I had created. I know what I have to do to fix it...to make things right. There's no problem that can't be solved.

Ni Hao Firefly universe.

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Where the hell would you start? They don't even use the same alphabet.

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Chinese has an alternate written form called pinyin, which writes out Chinese words in the Roman alphabet. What I wrote in the post just above, Ni Hao, is pinyin for the Chinese word for hello.

Also as an example, in my home we write and speak in a mixture of Chinese and English.

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Okay, I'm with you, but isn't that just using 'foreign' words in English? Like how we use the word 'picnic' which is a French word?

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I guess, but Pinyin is officially recognized. It was made by the Chinese government to facilitate trade I believe. Also, I am leaving out the accent marks which there are a lot of in pinyin, which relate a words tone (and changes the meaning of a word).

But considering it was made by the Chinese themselves, and is a roman character version of their spoken language and not a series of borrowed words, I would say its different.

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Sorry, I didn't explain myself well. What I meant is if you combine English and Chinese into one language written in the roman alphabet, it's basically English with some different vocabulary thrown in.

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That's a pretty self-centered way of viewing it.

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No no, far from it.

If the reverse was true, English words translated into Chinese characters and mixed in with Chinese words then I would be saying that it wasn't a mix of english and Chinese, but Chinese with English vocabulary thrown in.

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Mmmm... Not that far from it actually..

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