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Language of Love - Prologue. Introduction

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Language of Love

By W.L

(Dedicated to a boy I recently met, not sure what will happen with us)

 

Introduction:

I know, I write sci-fi and technical fiction. I don’t usually write in this gritty style or romance, but after my dog’s passing and my recent encounter with a guy, I thought I would draw on my real life experiences and use my real voice in storytelling. You might have seen part of my real voice with the story “In the Cold”, in an old anthology, but it was much more polished. This time around, I feel like writing a fiction story with a modification of my inner voice. My newest acquaintance, who I cannot confirm as a lover or even a one night stand as we have not done anything sexual yet, have only attempted to speak to one another. Communication in on itself is difficult, because he is a 25 year old northern-born Chinese graduate student, who speaks broken English and is proficient in Mandarin. I am a 26 years old southern-born Chinese accountant with fluent English and Hong Kong-styled Cantonese dialect. We’re both native Chinese speakers, but dialects still matter in how we communicate. When we try to speak Chinese to each other, we can pick up pieces of what the other one is trying to say, but our intonation is off.

We’re very similar in our cultural heritage and know the same idioms, but we have very different outlooks and interpretations. We are using an alien language, English in this regards, as a common means of communication. We also have very odd taste for each other’s Chinese cultures; I like northern wheat noodles, lamb, and dumplings. He likes southern fried rice, rice noodles, and pork. Something most people do not know is that Northern Chinese people and Southern Chinese people are actually diametrically parallel, like the American North and South taken to a further extreme. Without the common written language, which I do not actually know, there would probably have been two or more nations in China. Still, we both acknowledge a mutual interest in each other and thought we should try out a relationship.

That is basically the heart of Language of Love, I find the idea to be interesting and it parallels my life, so why not try to turn life into art? I never write about my cultural heritage, nor has there been much on modern gay Chinese relationships dealing with varying cultures.

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Ah, I'm excited! Besides the fact that my Chinese friends were either born in the U.S. or have been Americanized through years of immersion, we all also speak Cantonese. So it's going to be interesting to see the cultural differences. There is often a gap between Hong Kong and "mainlanders", do you feel Southern Chinese fall more between the former or the latter? Can't wait to read about where the Language of Love takes us!

A very interesting Prologue. It's most intriguing and makes one want to find out how this all goes. Lots of room for misunderstanding and drama rather than love. So I want to read on. And as you are saying this is based on personal experience, so much the better. Real life experience, even when it is so dramatically amazing, is always more convincing that romantic fictional tales from the imagination. So well done, so far. It's enticing me into the next chapter!

On 08/06/2013 04:01 AM, Jaro_423 said:
A very interesting Prologue. It's most intriguing and makes one want to find out how this all goes. Lots of room for misunderstanding and drama rather than love. So I want to read on. And as you are saying this is based on personal experience, so much the better. Real life experience, even when it is so dramatically amazing, is always more convincing that romantic fictional tales from the imagination. So well done, so far. It's enticing me into the next chapter!
Glad to hear
On 08/06/2013 12:32 AM, vinnyvin said:
Ah, I'm excited! Besides the fact that my Chinese friends were either born in the U.S. or have been Americanized through years of immersion, we all also speak Cantonese. So it's going to be interesting to see the cultural differences. There is often a gap between Hong Kong and "mainlanders", do you feel Southern Chinese fall more between the former or the latter? Can't wait to read about where the Language of Love takes us!
Since half of my family were in Hong Kong and half mainland, I am less culture shocked. I speak the HK tongue pretty well with the broken Canto-English slangs :P

 

Mandarin and Northern Chinese guys are a lot different than us. It's Chinese, but another variation.

Definitely intrigued by the premise and the start, W_L. I am fascinated by cultures and languages (despite being a scientist :o ), and I have had friends from both Northern China and Hong Kong/Southern China so I have picked up bits and pieces of the similarities and differences. I am looking forward to learn more the cultures and languages and to learn about the path that these two young me will take.

 

Good luck -- in the story and in the parallel universe of your life!

 

John

On 08/06/2013 07:49 PM, hillj69 said:
Definitely intrigued by the premise and the start, W_L. I am fascinated by cultures and languages (despite being a scientist :o ), and I have had friends from both Northern China and Hong Kong/Southern China so I have picked up bits and pieces of the similarities and differences. I am looking forward to learn more the cultures and languages and to learn about the path that these two young me will take.

 

Good luck -- in the story and in the parallel universe of your life!

 

John

Thanks, I hope it works out for my characters. They seem like nice guys, who just need to find a good combination between them.

 

As for me, I don't know is the best answer I can give.

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