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Entry Posted October 21, 2007

http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm Explanation of the Chinese system of writing, by way of imagining that English were constructed in the same way. (Something similar: the documentation for Locale::Maketext includes an intriguing section on cross-language difficulties encountered in translating seemingly simple bits of text like “Your query matched 10 files in 4 directories.”) 09:59

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… about it, wonder about it. And the little urge that's left after reaching about age 6 gets stifled the hell out of them at school. That's why so many of them can do the pen-twirling trick: that's what 12 hours of school a day would do to you.The language is to blame. Historians of the future will prove me right. Unless we all have to adopt the Chinese script, in which case historians of the future will also prove me right. I even have a solution. Very simple. I don't think the Roman alphabet is well suited for …

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… about it, wonder about it. And the little urge that's left after reaching about age 6 gets stifled the hell out of them at school. That's why so many of them can do the pen-twirling trick: that's what 12 hours of school a day would do to you.The language is to blame. Historians of the future will prove me right. Unless we all have to adopt the Chinese script, in which case historians of the future will also prove me right. I even have a solution. Very simple. I don't think the Roman alphabet is well suited for …

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… Ich werde in meinem Blog vermutlich öfter mal was über die chinesische Sprache schreiben. Um dem geneigten Leser das Verständnis zu erleichern, werde ich manchmal auch Erläuterungen oder Erklärungen geben.Hier …

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… can infer various kinds of similar reasoning ... Whoever can draw inferences about other cases from one instance can generalise ... really knows how to calculate... . To be able to deduce and then generalise.. is the mark of an intelligent person.If English was written like Chinese: The yingzi that use a particular radical will form a class of their own--a sort of meaning class. We can consider the entire English language to be divided into 214 meaning categories. For instance, every yingzi that uses the bug radical will have …

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