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Romanization is a nice way to input characters but very slow to read for native speakers.
by smallnamespace 8y ago
Romanization is a nice way to input characters but very slow to read for native speakers.
- ajross 8y agoThe point was that arguing the language "cannot be written" is sort of prima facie incorrect given that there are existing written forms already defined. So if you need one that is easier to use than what is already there, it's no harder, right?
- smallnamespace 8y agoWell, Chinese characters can be used to represent foreign sounds. Would you call asking English speakers to write exclusively using Chinese characters to be an adequate form of writing? It would hardly be useful except to specialists. Romanization is taught to all students in China and HK during primary school but they move on to using characters within 1 year. I have never seen a fully romanized text in Chinese outside of educational materials.