it's probably because a lot of people say 1.3 billion in mainland china use simplified instead of traditional. Places like Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas newspapers use traditional instead. If one were to look at this through a cynical point of view; it could be that the Chinese petitioned other U.N. members to do so so as to say "screw you Taiwan" and is just another way for them to put pressure on them.
^ because those 1.3 billion people are illiterate and are all too languid in even attempting to learn traditional chinese. it's a very shallow thing to do, abolishing a traditional style for the simplified chicken scratches.
Lazy Mother*beep*in' People these days... Traditional Chinese For The Win and All The Way! Stop being lazy and put in a few more strokes in your words, ain't going to kill ya'
Not true, they're not illiterates nor is it shallow. if you look at simplified chinese it's a lot easier and a whole lot less strokes than traditional which makes it more efficient to write and easier to teach and learn. I would prefer traditional cause it looks better.
Most of the Japanese Kanji (the one I've seen or used) have better balance in their strokes, the character look better, somewhere between traditional Chinese's crowdedness and simplified Chinese's over-scarse strokes. Not really, considering there are a few characters which can represent multiple traditional Chinese characters each, simplified Chinese only leads to more confusion @_@b
what do you mean? From the simplified words I've seen they've merely simplified the structure of the traditional chinese characters. Do you mean to say simplified uses less strokes? 風 --> 风 什麼 ---> 什么
wow, that's just retarded. It's like saying the words "their" and "there" should be combined to form "dear" or something. Wtf, it takes the meanings out of the words even though they sound the same and dumbs people down.
Exactly. That's why even though Simplified Chinese has its merit, the authorities cannot simply abandon Traditional Chinese as a writing format :(
Can't we all just speak English? Someone should take over the world and unify language, like that king that did it for China
yea! traditional looks so much better in writing.. that's culture there.. now we want to eliminate traditional and use full time simplified? are ppl just being lazy?
Not a fan of English in terms of its liguistic origin... too much "borrowed" words, not a very original language -mellow Maybe you can learn to speak in numbers? That would be the easiest lanuage possible I reckon... -whistle Totally are being lazy, those people... But as stated before, it's all political...
I must admit.....I sometimes write 个 instead of 個 and 国 instead of 國 ... (only if permitted outside school, thus not for school exams) sometimes simplified is quicker to write and it needs less pencilstrokes.... yes, i'm lazy... Just wondering anyone here who uses form's of singlish??sino-english??
LOL, but those are for personal use right? I do that too, but not on anything I share with others (in case they don't read simplified Chinese well) Would you hand in a resume with half simplified Chinese and half traditional Chinese (as I had observe, the knowledge in simplified Chinese in Hong Kong is NOTHING to write home about...)?
this is just a right example why people should be against simplifications....there is nothing left of the nuances of the language anymore.... euhm....never thought about making a resume in chinese LOL (have one in dutch language) mixing half traditional/simplefied in the mainland shouldn't be any problem...but If i fill in forms in the mainland..i NEVER use the simplified form of my (sur)name =P ...just personal habit..
Unfortunately, most people (not all, of course, but most) from the mainland do not comprehend traditional Chinese... So it wouldn't work -unsure I never write my surname in simplified either, I never got it looking right @_@b Plus it will be confused with another surname...
Since when did origin and originality matter? It's the easiest language for the world to accept as the world language. And I think it's easier to write and speak English than Chinese, less tones in speaking and you can pretty much sound out any word if you can't spell it. With Chinese, you have to be like a human dictionary to write anything complicated...
Well, I am just saying English is not a very interesting language. And in fact there are easier languages than English, why not Spanish or something? And no, I don't consider myself a human dictionary and I can write traditional Chinese well enough.
hey.. dun think anyone has the right to abolish any language now.. not like emperor qin lor.. (no right either.. but did it anyway.. lol) totally ridiculous.. wat harm can keeping it do? i personally find traditional chi much more elegant..
