Chinese writing

[EternalOptimist]

I want to be honest about this. I dont like it. All that squiggly stuff on the menus and toothpaste tubes gets right up my nose.

Is there any chance, do you think, that The Chinese would ever adopt the English language, and our alphabet ? I mean, even the French are coming around slowly, that leader of the IMF was warned by the French media that he would have to become 'more anglo saxon', before his downfall

Will there ever be one international language ?

maybe there already is

[MarillionFan]

I want to be honest about this. I dont like it. All that squiggly stuff on the menus and toothpaste tubes gets right up my nose.

Is there any chance, do you think, that The Chinese would ever adopt the English language, and our alphabet ? I mean, even the French are coming around slowly, that leader of the IMF was warned by the French media that he would have to become 'more anglo saxon', before his downfall

Will there ever be one international language ?

maybe there already is

Yes. It's going to be Chinese. Get squiggling.

[Pondlife]

I think Zeity's working on it right now.

[Old Greg]

Except Chinese writing represents meanings, not sounds. So Cantonese and Mandarin speakers write the same characters, even though they speak different words. It's usefu to create a common written language across the country, which they would not have with a phonetic writing system.

Or so I understand it - might be completely wrong.

[SimonMac]

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Job Done!

[Paddy]

Except Chinese writing represents meanings, not sounds. So Cantonese and Mandarin speakers write the same characters, even though they speak different words. It's usefu to create a common written language across the country, which they would not have with a phonetic writing system.

Or so I understand it - might be completely wrong.

+1 However, I believe that Mandarin uses the simplified character set.

[Old Greg]

+1 However, I believe that Mandarin uses the simplified character set.

Is it more segmented?

[MarillionFan]

Caveman

How about caveman? Very easy to learn.

1. Grunt excessively. Cavemen and women lived in a time before modern and sophisticated communication and would express many emotions through single noises.
2. Talk in a lower voice and only say parts of the words. This is more effective if you speak another Germanic language and weave in some of those words.
3. Yell out to add anger to your tone.
4. Use physical gestures to add emphasis, such as pounding your fists, or telling a lot of the story using hand motions.
5. Repeat a noise and repeat it in the same situation, Cavemen might not have known English but they would have words for certain things like food and indivduals

Churchill will be giving an advanced class later on today at TWO ug PM

[EternalOptimist]

Is it more segmented?