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They'll have to come up with a better writing system, either settling on pinyin on wade-giles, or something else. Really, ideographs are awful, an alphabet or
by douche 10y ago
They'll have to come up with a better writing system, either settling on pinyin on wade-giles, or something else. Really, ideographs are awful, an alphabet or even a syllabarry would be workable, but needing thousands of characters to read a newspaper is unforgivable.
- contingencies 10y agoThat's OK, people don't read newspapers anymore and pinyin is a viable and highly consistent Romanization system already used by 1.4 billion. Wade Giles is a historical footnote. A little known fact is that the darling of the 20th century communist party's modern Chinese literary world, Lu Xun, advocated for the abolition of characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun Perhaps long texts will be read in a Romanized form (Pinyin) and characters will be reserved for use in concise international symbologies, much like Japan's ongoing use of kanji?
- ktRolster 10y agoPerhaps long texts will be read in a Romanized form (Pinyin) and characters will be reserved for use in concise international symbologies, much like Japan's ongoing use of kanji? In Japanese, the Kanji are used basically everywhere (and when you are writing, sometimes you wish there were a kanji for a word, so you wouldn't have to write out all the letters. Of course, it's not as bad when you can type it).