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The hardest hurdle after overcoming the superficial points the author makes is the fact that Chinese is an incredibly abstract and implicit language. When you r
by xarien 12y ago
The hardest hurdle after overcoming the superficial points the author makes is the fact that Chinese is an incredibly abstract and implicit language. When you read between the lines, you often find entire paragraphs. When comparing it to an extremely explicit language such as English, there's a fundamental difference in how ideas are propagated into words.
- cobrausn 12y agoThe lack of an alphabet is not really a superficial point. That's a huge divide to begin with, and it only diverges further from there.
- archena 12y agoWhat do "implict" and "explicit" languages even mean? Chinese uses a different grammar, so in that sense it puts ideas into words differently, but the idea that Chinese is somehow less literal than English is nonsense.
- xarien 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-subject_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-subject_language