> Do you know? Care to explain? I'm not a historian. But in the history, actually there was an attempt to "romanize Chinese".[1] And it failed. It's a complex

> Do you know? Care to explain? I'm not a historian. But in the history, actually there was an attempt to "romanize Chinese".[1] And it failed. It's a complex issue, mostly a political one, and to say there is one single reason that it failed would be a gross simplification. My anecdote is: 1. Chinese is a very "easy-to-read, hard-to-write" writting system. It's compact and information dense compared to alphabet based system. 2. There are too many homophones. In a daily conversation, you provide extra context with body language and your tone. But in a written context you have no such tools. All you have is "icons". [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Chinese