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Not sure if you're trolling or not, but I'll bite. Did you even read the article you linked to? The author makes so such argument. The point of the article is
by lstyls 10y ago
Not sure if you're trolling or not, but I'll bite.
Did you even read the article you linked to? The author makes so such argument. The point of the article is that it's extremely difficult for non-native speakers to learn written Chinese.
- bsdetector 10y ago"What I mean is that Chinese is not only hard for us (English speakers), but it's also hard in absolute terms. Which means that Chinese is also hard for them, for Chinese people." Author is saying it's unnecessarily hard for everybody.
- lstyls 10y agoPoint conceded, but it still doesn't take away from the broader point which is that the parent makes a false assertion: > David Moser also arguing that the Chinese writing system is objectively inferior
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- lstyls 10y ago@waqf my point is that being harder to learn the written language does not mean that the language is _objectively_ inferior as a whole. There is no universal set of objective metrics to judge the value of a language, and such an assertion approaches cultural chauvinism.