Talk:Speak Mandarin Campaign

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The article is copied word for word from [1]. Was permission actually granted to use the text on that page? If not, I'm going to put a copyright violation tag on the page.--Yuje 16:48, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

The article is re-written, and should be alright. I will further expand it later. --Vsion 01:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Hmm....is this article actually on the campaign or the SMC?--Huaiwei 05:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm slightly confused. This article should be about the Speak Mandarin Campaign. SMC is an abbrev. for something else? --Vsion 06:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

whoops...i made a typo there. :D I was refering to the PMC (Promote Mandarin Council), because the Chinese translation there is for the PMC and not the SMC! :D I belive this is so because the older copyvio version was about the committee and not the campaign. Shall I make the amendment to the Chinese words?--Huaiwei 07:09, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I guess so. Btw, there is a table in Demographics of Singapore that shows a significant shift from chinese dialect to Mandarin since 1990, for languages spoken at home. But of course, education policy plays a major role in this trend. -- Vsion 07:23, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Oh I would think its more to do with the educational policy than this campaign. :D Afterall, this campaign seems more targeted towards the older age groups, particularly those who have had English education and hardly know any Chinese?--Huaiwei 07:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Demographics

Wish there was some more demographical information, we need references, also aren't concerns about democide pertinent? How many of those 26% of Mandarin speakers did so at home? I'm trying to gauge the outlook of the population in the early years of the Republic... Elle _{vécut heureuse} ^{à jamais} (Be eudaimonic!) 00:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)