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This reminds me of the recent article talking about one of the major obstacles to China spreading its culture is the complexity of its written language. Many p
by Simucal 17y ago
This reminds me of the recent article talking about one of the major obstacles to China spreading its culture is the complexity of its written language.
Many people think that this fact alone will stop Chinese culture from dominating and spreading in the same way Western/English culture has spread.
- sliverstorm 17y agoGood point. I know tons of nissei (well, the Chinese word for nissei, whatever it is) who can speak Chinese but completely gave up on writing it, and it looks to me sorta like the language is going to die in the US as the generations go on partly because of that. (unless immigration from china stays high)
- berntb 17y agoIn a few years we get mobile phone cameras with OCR and reading/translation. (There might be apps for that on the iPhone already?) Better living through technology. :-)
- Glide 17y agoOh god, that would be horribly slow. But I dunno maybe we'll have a future where most people will speak Chinese and English....
- berntb 17y agoNot slow with a server solution and next generation upload speed. (Most of the OCR could be implemented on a hardware chip, so not a full image has to be sent.)