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I asked a 19 yr girl to read a page out of the book I was reading with Shanghainese pronunciation
and let me record for my own fun, she was totally embarrassed but after 10 mins I convinced her.
When I played it for a male in his 20's he thought it was horrible and said he could do better.

He probably thought it was horrible because she sounded like she had to pause and think about the
Shanghainese pronunciation for a number of the words. When I was in elementary school in Shanghai
in the early 1980s, we used to read out texts in Shanghainese as a joke all the time. But that was
when Mandarin promotion just started and all the kids still spoke Shanghainese outside the
classroom and often inside. The schools nowadays are so Mandarinized that kids' Shanghainese
aren't as good as they used to be. I often hear young Shanghainese adding Mandarin words for
Shanghainese words they don't know when they are having conversations in Shanghainese.



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As for words unique to Shanghainese, are there many Shanghainese who are aware that their word for
東西 in Shanghainese, i.e. me zi, is 物事? Or that the word for 錢 in Shanghainese, i.e. tong
di, is 銅鈿?

A thing (东西) in Shanghainese is indeed "me zi" and the characters are 么事. This origin of
this Wu dialect word is of different origin from 东西 is. Another such example is that in
Shanghainese, "to wash" is "da" (汏).












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