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I found it interesting that the article made no mention of Sinitic languages even though they’re the most obviously different. Personally I have found that many

I found it interesting that the article made no mention of Sinitic languages even though they’re the most obviously different. Personally I have found that many Mandarin speakers will accidentally misgender people in English since the Mandarin words for “he” and “she” are homophones.

gweinberg 3y ago
But the characters look completely different?
- currymj 3y ago
  yes, but this is a relatively recent (20th century) development that was originally introduced in order to enable the translation of foreign-language literature.