Dream Time said:
chinese characters have very important values in the culture, and there is so much history behind it, i don't like simplified chinese either, they said it helps the people to learn the language quicker, apparently that doesn't help at all, as China has millions of illiterate people. if they want everyone in the country to be able to read and write chinese, they should do it by putting people in school, not by changing the writing system.
the chinese government has already destroyed many historical buildings, they are westernizing the country, as a chinese person i really hate that to happen
for the historical buildings, they are deconstructed, because they are not longer productive/functional. that's my assumption, especially here in ireland,
our econonomy is suffering from maintenancing such buildings. they are not economic, to heat/in terms of area usage and so on. just 30 percent higher costs, but this makes a deciding difference. and, they are unconfortable as well, leaking roofs and all these things.
"i observe our economy additionally suffers from high maintenance costs"
for the writing system,
it is carricature, if people write japanese(in roman letters), first letter "Big", and even applying their grammar rules to it. probably japanese is the simpliest of the asian languages, and soon, all the countries are going to agree to it. most of it is indeed traditional chinese. and, it includes a lot english words, the roman spelling is emulated.
"it seems like carricature to me right now" is more correct
sorry,
most of us western people can not derive anymore, what the letters are symbolizing. in school, i can remember, we made up ill-fashioned identities, for example "F"=fish and so on. this causes all the stupidity we have now, it allows to use words, without understanding them.
"personally, i have difficulties to derive what the letters are symbolizing"
indeed, the wallpaper of english
is thinner than i assume sometimes. i wonder, that people are understanding each other.
"it appears thin to me sometimes"
greetings from orwell, short-speak, double-think and so on.
chinese is called "language of the living symbols", as far as i can remember.
i remember, i have read "language of the living symbols" attached to chinese language.
roman letters utilize a system of 600000 words, to establish abstract identities.
this is very useful, i.e. for computer programming. indeed, for human communication, i would prefer chinese/japanese.
"it appears useful to me, as i am a programmer"
i already dropped "everybody" "no-one" "must" "can not" "have to". now, i even try to minimze "is" and "be". of course, i do not use "will" anymore. because, we do not know tomorrow. we can only make assumptions.