Talk:Huang Li/@comment-180.177.1.196-20190805051811

(Unrelated to puzzle-solving)

Huang Li is the only Chinese sailor with voice acting, and his only line is when he helped translating between the captain and Chioh Tan in Unholy Captives, part 1. While Li is supposed to communicate with Tan in Hokkien/Taiwanese dialect, Li is rather inadequate for the job. Li pronounced "這是" and "全部" more like in Mandarin, then paused (displayed as a space) (presumably realizing he isn't using the correct dialect), and pronounced the rest of each of the two sentences in Taiwanese. I really like this idea because a random Chinese sailor doesn't have to know the language.

However, to the best of my knowledge, most of the Chinese sailors and pirates back then come from southern China, and the Hokkien dialect is pretty popular there. Moreover, Li's mother tongue seems to be Mandarin or something similar, so it should be a northen dialect. Therefore it would be rare that such a sailor "of northen origin, being able to speak a southern dialect" even exists. In addition, his English sounds too fluent and young in my opinion.