Originally Posted by
clublounger
We're told that the passenger is "illiterate". How is she going to read note cards in ANY language?
Unless they have pictures.......
That's what I was figuring--put pictures on them for her to tell them apart.
Originally Posted by
craz
in what post does the OP say that, AFAIK they never said that. Seems the OPs MIL speaks a certain dialect that is spoken only where they are from
If anything in 1 of their posts the OP says using the cards is a good idea and will prepare them
Read the thread title. "Illiterate" is right there!
I do agree about the regional dialect. There are a lot of Chinese senior citizens like this--they grew up before the communists imposed Mandarin on the country. My MIL was one of those (although literate.)
Originally Posted by
GoAmtrak
You can find "illiterate" right in the thread title itself. Perhaps OP meant to imply "...in English or Mandarin", but we shouldn't presume the person to be literate in any language.
All the regional dialects use the same written language. Two Chinese people with no spoken dialect in common can still communicate in writing. (And then you get what happened to my wife a couple of years ago--she was on the phone with someone that she had no regional dialect in common with and their Mandarin was far from perfect. She ended up describing how to to draw the symbol. Somehow using writing to communicate on the phone strikes me as strange!)