<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@ionchy" class="u-url mention">@<span>ionchy</span></a></span> (disclaimer: I don&#39;t understand any dialects at all) I feel like it&#39;s a combo of high and low registers + familiarity between parties? My only reference points are EEAAO (where Evelyn and 公公 yell at each other in Canto unless it&#39;s an Emotionally Significant Soliloquy), and my family (where Teochew is for yelling at family members, Canto is for ordering at restaurants/haggling, and Mandarin is for everything else</p>
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