Cantonese

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  1. Venom, Poison and Toxin.
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  • Venom is produced by an animal. The word venomous that you see in the picture is in the grouping defining an alternate meaning about dastardly and threatening behaviours not usually attributable to most animals (venomous, yes; but wicked, nefarious and malicious, typically no), except us.
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  • Poison describes a substance that can kill, but note that not all venoms are poisonous. Often describes toxic substances made by or from plants
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  • Toxin is a word that describes substances that have a harmful effect on the body and generally includes all poisons and venom.
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Phones these days have more compute capability than the servers we were deploying in data centres right up to a decade ago and are powerful, low-profile tools that easily go anywhere with us. One of the least secure things one can do with them these days is to use them as a phone. :busts_in_silhouette:

It was and I hadn’t yet sent my reply … there must be a reason that I haven’t … :thinking:

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that endless “poison” is about “langdu”, I hope???

(why some people seem bothered about simple choice of others. take care!)

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does Cantonese have words equivalent to are or the?

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係
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• <粵> to be; is; are • <粵> yes, it is; indeed; right; positive • relation; relationship; consequence #hanping #android

But “the”, IIRC from my beginnings doesn’t have a direct translation.

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Loving your course @joeybelk! Thanks so much for creating it! I’m new to the forums so forgive any errors here. See you in the course soon!

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Hi @raventao,

Thanks for the kind words! I haven’t updated it in a while. The last time I tried, I had all kinds of trouble adding or removing data. Not sure if Memrise has fixed those bugs since then…

If you’re looking for more resources – a friend of mine is a research assistant studying Cantonese language, and he’s putting together an online dictionary. There’s a lot to fill out, but all of the entries are accurate for spoken Cantonese.

Not sure if he wants me to share the link publicly, but I can message it to you if you like.

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That would be fab! I’m still at beginner stages right now but that sounds fascinating. New to Memrise forums and Mempals etc. Is it just me or is it really tough to figure out how to follow people? I just see ‘message’ instead of button to follow… yeesh… maybe it’s because I’m new to the forum. Hope I can figure it out!