> >On 17 October 2010 09:41, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Pin yin is replacing written chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and they >are >> forgetting the writing of chars. Also > >This is news to me. > >While my experience is only second hand as I don't speak Chinese >myself I can't imagine easily replacing the ideograms with pinyin and >preserving intelligible written text.
Note its pinyin for writing, they can still read complex chars they are just forgetting the detail required for composing them , this complexity is why mainland china simplified the characters. > >At the very least writing in pinyin will necessarily be more verbose >as it is not possible to write a single word unambiguously in pinyin. That is also true pinyin writing systems bring up an option list for the character , China has many cases where the same sound is many different words , and this makes pinyin unsuitable for a char representation . Ben _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
