smart move, waiting until Honkers has been totally decimated by the PRC crackdowns to the point that the shops left will hire any old idiot that can press the green button on the copier just to try to make up the numbers
吗 , in the context of asking someone whether he speaks Putonghua, is a kind of noise used for emphasis. Its function is a bit like if you added "huh?" to the end of the question.
No it isn't. Your sentence without 吗 is a statement reading "You speak mandarin" with a ? tacked onto the end. Usage of 吗 at the end of a statement turns the statement into a question. Without it, your audience would be relying on context and so it probably would be understood but it's grammatically incorrect and doesn't support the point you were trying to make which was clearly a dig at the OP.
With 你话说普通话吗？your statement would translate to "Do you speak mandarin?" which I think was your intention.
If you wanted to make it an expression that is more like huh? and so it becomes a reflexive question you would use the particle "吧" at the end instead, which would make your question translate to something like "You speak mandarin right?"
Although thesneak is correct here, he has embarrasingly put a hua instead of a hui in his restatement of the full question in his/her 12:11. Therefore both parties lose. Please report to your nearest labour camp for reeducation.
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New job, new woman. Like shooting fish in a barrel over there as a westerner.
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M8 the presenteeism there is offff the hook
Beware
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Genuinely surprised.
There’s over a billion of them - do they not have any elderly fantasist tax lawyers of their own?
Or are you simply prepared to do the job more cheaply than the domestic competition?
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no need for the ego foam cannon here...struts doing himself
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LOL
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Sorry, which bit are you disputing hyoobert?
Elderly? Fantasist? Or tax lawyer?
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Someone hose him down!
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No, answer the question.
Which bit are you disputing?
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fire brigade called
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In other news, elderly fantasist tax lawyer fails to change the subject.
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"Elderly" seems inaccurate. Late 50s is hardly geriatric.
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I'm pretty sure he's hit 60 by now, but doubtless poor little hyoobert can confirm.
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Are they remaking "Saved by the Bell" for a Chinese audience?
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High Guise 17 Jan 24 05:41
Mite dip a toe.
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smart move, waiting until Honkers has been totally decimated by the PRC crackdowns to the point that the shops left will hire any old idiot that can press the green button on the copier just to try to make up the numbers
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你会说普通话?
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You dropped this - 吗
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Do run a search for Richard O'Halloran and China.
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吗 , in the context of asking someone whether he speaks Putonghua, is a kind of noise used for emphasis. Its function is a bit like if you added "huh?" to the end of the question.
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No it isn't. Your sentence without 吗 is a statement reading "You speak mandarin" with a ? tacked onto the end. Usage of 吗 at the end of a statement turns the statement into a question. Without it, your audience would be relying on context and so it probably would be understood but it's grammatically incorrect and doesn't support the point you were trying to make which was clearly a dig at the OP.
With 你话说普通话吗？your statement would translate to "Do you speak mandarin?" which I think was your intention.
If you wanted to make it an expression that is more like huh? and so it becomes a reflexive question you would use the particle "吧" at the end instead, which would make your question translate to something like "You speak mandarin right?"
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Will you get a company car?
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and driver
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I can't be the only one hoping this turns into a fight like the Simone de Beauvoir French thread a couple of years ago.
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Chinese women are unique among Asians for their generously sized tits.
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Although thesneak is correct here, he has embarrasingly put a hua instead of a hui in his restatement of the full question in his/her 12:11. Therefore both parties lose. Please report to your nearest labour camp for reeducation.
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aren't you a bit old to be working in a foxconn factory?
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Well I must say I didn't know that "white monkey" jobs were still a thing in China but there you go!
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Yeah, fair call by The Goose. I have been hoisted by my own fart and I am professionally embarrassed.
I huaed when I should have just huied in my lane and I shall humbly accept whatever judgement the people's court wishes to bestow on me.
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The people’s court decided that you shall be subjected to ten years of EV sales pitches by
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