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brotherrick
Posted on: 简体字与繁体字
February 18, 2008 at 6:48 PMWith my Taiwan-Chinese study background, I find traditional characters easier to read that simplified characters. Yes, the traditional characters contain more strokes, but they also contain more information and clues to meaning. My developing Chinese language skill forces me still to translate much of the Chinese text that I read--an unfortunate fact of life. When I read simplified characters, I often find myself translating TWICE--first, from simplified to traditional (when I CAN), then, from traditional to English (when I MUST). My skill leaves something to be desired, of course, and I know that simplified characters are here to stay, but personally, for this student at least, I find that the "simplicity" that simplified characters offer is actually a layer of obscurity that increases my mental processing time, and one that I could do quite well without. As to the issue of WRITING traditional characters, I know that there a few writing conventions that make it possible to write tradtional characters quickly--perhaps as quickly as handwritten simplified characters.
Posted on: Discussing Photography
May 23, 2007 at 5:40 AMThanks, Amber!
Posted on: Discussing Photography
May 22, 2007 at 7:57 AM請問-- How then, might we say, "40 Gigabyte hard drive"?
Posted on: What's up?
February 28, 2008 at 6:32 AMA question: Is jin4 lai2 ru2 he2 an acceptable greeting...or just weird?