this is what I am trying to say, transitive
"pun" and intransitive "ts'e"
no other dialects I know of, and not in Mandarin and
English, has this distinction, right?
if a Hokkien Novel is translated into any of these, the
distinction will be lost
therefore I agree with you, mother tongue is important
No matter how well versed with another dialects or languages we
are not as fluent in thoughts and flows as with mother tongue.
Yes, mother tongue does give an edge like it or not.
