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Why would they want to go backwards. Anyone who has spent sometime in China will understand that it's stripped Hong Kong and Taiwan far behind. And this just l

Why would they want to go backwards. Anyone who has spent sometime in China will understand that it's stripped Hong Kong and Taiwan far behind. And this just leaves me scratching my head - bring back traditional Chinese characters I'm not sure what the motivation behind this is or if it's just due to a lack of historical awareness. Simplified Chinese characters were introduced as a way to improve overall literacy in the country to decrease the barrier for education. It was a smart move. If other regions want to preserve traditional characters out of tradition that's totally cool but overhauling the simplified character system would be again going backwards

tony 7y ago
If it's handwriting, maybe Simplified writing can serve as a way to write notes. But with computers and standardized education everywhere, why? Please understand, the simplified Chinese conversion was done at a time where literacy was low worldwide: https://ourworldindata.org/literacy https://ourworldindata.org/literacy There is more context at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_traditional_and_simplified_Chinese_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_traditional_and_simp... This was the dearest point I had. You can even call the other points facetious or an overall thought experiment. That's why I take great pride in my work on Cihai (https://cihai.git-pull.com/ https://cihai.git-pull.com/), which makes characters preserved through the Unicode Consortium's UNIHAN project more accessible. They will be ready and waiting to be implemented once again. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification In fact, our computers everywhere around the world reserve the codepoints of even ancient, now unused Chinese characters. UNIHAN also covers the ones used in Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese also (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_language-dependent_glyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_la...), and variants across them. And there are also reservations for bagua and yi jing hexagrams. I hope China pulls the plug on this Simplified writing experiment. Chinese is a very beautiful language!
atr_gz 7y ago
Going back to traditional characters was a strange addition to the list. But why would the other things there be going backwards? I don't see how those are mutually exclusive with economic success.

tony 7y ago

If it's handwriting, maybe Simplified writing can serve as a way to write notes. But with computers and standardized education everywhere, why? Please understand, the simplified Chinese conversion was done at a time where literacy was low worldwide: https://ourworldindata.org/literacy https://ourworldindata.org/literacy There is more context at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_traditional_and_simplified_Chinese_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_on_traditional_and_simp... This was the dearest point I had. You can even call the other points facetious or an overall thought experiment. That's why I take great pride in my work on Cihai (https://cihai.git-pull.com/ https://cihai.git-pull.com/), which makes characters preserved through the Unicode Consortium's UNIHAN project more accessible. They will be ready and waiting to be implemented once again. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification In fact, our computers everywhere around the world reserve the codepoints of even ancient, now unused Chinese characters. UNIHAN also covers the ones used in Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese also (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_language-dependent_glyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_la...), and variants across them. And there are also reservations for bagua and yi jing hexagrams. I hope China pulls the plug on this Simplified writing experiment. Chinese is a very beautiful language!

atr_gz 7y ago

Going back to traditional characters was a strange addition to the list. But why would the other things there be going backwards? I don't see how those are mutually exclusive with economic success.