- From: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 07:44:18 +0800
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- CC: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, "CJK discussion (public-i18n-cjk@w3.org)" <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
(Cc -www-style) (12/04/17 1:32), Ambrose LI wrote: > As far as I understand, the traditional style of formal letters (where > the letter effectively opens with “To whom it may concern” and closes > with the name of the recipient) is not used in China, so it is > plausible that this traditional device is no longer used there; if > that is the case then it would explain why people in China do not > recognize it. Yeah, that explains it. > People in Taiwan and Hong Kong should recognize it (unless I’m more > detached from the culture than I think I am), but in the meantime I’ll > try to see if I can get any relevant information. Yes I do recognize it. I believe this is still taught in school but now that I am detached from our education system for awhile now, I don't even know if our geography textbook still says China is part of Republic of China or not ;) Cheers, Kenny
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