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> How can China expect the rest of the world to use Chinese when even they themselves don't know it 100%? And there goes Shakespeare. On average there's 15,000
by yeukhon 10y ago
> How can China expect the rest of the world to use Chinese when even they themselves don't know it 100%?
And there goes Shakespeare. On average there's 15,000 words per play. I bet most readers do not have the education to know every single word in that 15,000.
"The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries." [1]
[1]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-words-are-there-in-the-english-language https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-words-are...
- timtadh 10y ago> And there goes Shakespeare. On average there's 15,000 words per play. I bet most readers do not have the education to know every single word in that 15,000. In English (as I assume in Chinese) you can usually figure out what is being said in Shakespeare even if you don't know the exact definition of the word. You also can usually pronounce it correctly (at least for the modern pronunciation).
- yeukhon 10y agoAbsolutely. Chinese too. There are patterns among words. Also if you know part of the phrase not hard to figure out either. Once you know the language you will whether it is Chinese or Korean.