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[quote=DAVID_LIAO,496448]It is an interesting question and I hope I can help you why we always mention Mandarin or other local Chinese. Firstly, it does mean the pronunciation itself when we write or speak Mandarin or something else, rather than what are the characters are writing or speaking. Secondly, when we say, for example 潮州话(Teochew), it means we take the local culture into account, maybe chaozhou people can understand it easily but not the northeastern one, because chaozhou people really know what you are talking about, such as a special food or lifestyle in Guangdong province with which northeastern are not familiar with, or they maybe have no idea about it at all. Thirdly, I believe pronunciation is a kind of art itself. Some of wordsmiths speak different pronunciation of the same sentence on special performances to show different culture background. This type of performance is welcome to Chinese audience because there are funny for subtle meaning. 
I am not good at English but I hope you can understand what I said.
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