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Forum: Reading and Writing 26th May 2004, 09:40 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
I find myself in rare disagreement with ala on...
I find myself in rare disagreement with ala on this -- though perhaps it is just in his/her choice
of wording rather than intended meaning. Chinese characters no more "transcend sound" than...
Forum: Reading and Writing 26th May 2004, 09:34 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
Again, let's not set up straw men. This isn't...
Again, let's not set up straw men. This isn't about having Pinyin be the writing system instead of
Hanzi.
I don't understand. Do you think that Mandarin speakers "compromise" when they have...
Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd May 2004, 01:13 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
That's not how I meant it at all. I apologize if...
That's not how I meant it at all. I apologize if I gave the wrong impression.
Not everyone who buys, say, an extremely expensive but well-marketed brand of perfume is a snob --
far from it. But the...
Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd May 2004, 12:47 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
I have an excellent article on the Dungans on my...
I have an excellent article on the Dungans on my site: Implications of the Soviet Dungan Script
for Chinese Language Reform (http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/dungan.html), by Victor Mair.
This...
Forum: Reading and Writing 19th May 2004, 11:28 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
I said it before, and I'll say it again: Occam's...
I said it before, and I'll say it again: Occam's razor. The burden of proof is on those who would
say, despite absence of real evidence, that Chinese characters are superior to alphabetic
systems...
Forum: Reading and Writing 19th May 2004, 11:00 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
:roll: It's not necessary to read any minds....
:roll: It's not necessary to read any minds. Plenty of people have made the same observation.
There is absolutely nothing unusual or even really controversial in my statement. Or is it that
you just...
Forum: Reading and Writing 19th May 2004, 10:45 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
This is incorrect. For the real story, read...
This is incorrect.
For the real story, read Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines
(http://pinyin.info/readings/japanese_literacy.html), by J. Marshall Unger....
Forum: Reading and Writing 18th May 2004, 11:59 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
There's really too much here for me to respond to...
There's really too much here for me to respond to adequately. Actually, most of the points I would
make have already been made by dmoser, ala, and others in this thread. It's just that they don't...
Forum: Reading and Writing 14th May 2004, 05:13 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
This is often asserted -- without any proof....
This is often asserted -- without any proof. Moreover, if we're talking about time here, how much
more time does it take to become literate in Chinese characters than in pinyin? In this, we're...
Forum: Reading and Writing 12th May 2004, 06:36 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
Or just use pinyin and skip the characters....
Or just use pinyin and skip the characters.
It's worth noting that most people already write Mandarin in pinyin -- they're just using this as
an intermediate step in having a computer translate...
Forum: Reading and Writing 5th May 2004, 03:02 PM
Replies: 473
Characters are objectively harder, even for Chinese
Views: 45,323
Posted By Taibei
A lot of people tend to get confused about the...
A lot of people tend to get confused about the nature of the question, thinking that the
troublesome spellings of English somehow equate to what it's like to write Mandarin in
romanization. (These...
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