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1. "Simplified" is technically a script variant of traditional developed in the last half century or so, only in the PRC - but they are ultimately still the sam
by dionian 8y ago
1. "Simplified" is technically a script variant of traditional developed in the last half century or so, only in the PRC - but they are ultimately still the same system. Those who can read traditional chinese script can read simplified with ease.
2. Only ~2000 needed for normal vocab. Compare this with 10000+ for english.
3. Mandarin in particular has a lot of homophones but it's practically not a problem since terms are comprised of one or more sound and thus easily disambiguate.
4. This is a good thing, vocab is much lower (see point 2)
5. Same with any language?
6. All humans use context