Wolfye wrote:
> 
> Question:
> 
> > > Hey, I've bin wondering since that whole
> > discussion on
> > > whether or not Shampoo speaks brokenly in both
> > > Japanese and English. Well, I kinda got to
> > > contemplating (after Kun-chan mentioned that she's
> > > read the Chinese versions) whether or not Shampoo
> > > speaks broken Chinese in the Chinese-translated
> > manga
> > > and/or anime? Can anyone answer this? Thanx! ^_^
> ----------------
> Kun-chan wrote back:
> 
> > Sorry, I don't know - I just looked at the pretty
> > pictures - I can't read
> > Chinese. :p
> Oh ok... *looks sad* But thanks anyway! Does anyone
> else know the answer to this?
>
> Wolfye

Don't know about the manga.  But in the Cantonese dubs of the anime,
Shampoo speaks Mandarin when she is naming the food Ranma and his father
eat in the flashback.  She speaks Cantonese fluently later on in the
anime series with a minor accent.  Actually watched almost all of the
series in the Chinese dubs of the anime before I've ever heard of the
manga or seen the english version.  So the concept of her being a bimbo
because of 'bimbo' speak never occured to me until I saw the english
translation.  Totally weirded me out.

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