Shanghaiist: China to start teaching traditional characters again?

parasitius

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:04:53 +0800

don't believe all of the hot air the braggarts like to blow at you, especially when it comes to anything to do with "their" language. yes, a lot of dalu'ers can basically read traditional, but what they are really doing is looking at the characters which are the same or so common that they do actually know in traditional and guessing the rest from context. Pull a few random common but fairly different from simplified individual characters from a hat and see how sure they are then. THERE IS A A GOOD REASON you see things (e.g. a Japanese grammar book for Chinese sold in Japan) printed in both simplified and traditional versions. If the dalu'ers were as capable as some like to brag, it would be completely unnecessary and in fact silly to print up an extra simplified edition of books.

Peijin Chen

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:07:46 +0800

jenming yeah it was meant tongue in cheek, except it was poorly written. it's like the view from inside my brain--things don't always make sense there, i didn't edit it enough.

mmonk

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:33:50 +0800

wow... it's excellent.

jenming

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:34:10 +0800

Am I misinterpreting you? You seem to be saying that learning traditional character would be a step in the same direction as democracy and free elections? can you elaborate? perhaps your tongue is in your cheek, and i'm being dense.