[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agoPeople around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down16
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squarePeople around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-square[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoEh, you don’t need to simplify it down so much. I mean Simplified Chinese was just slightly altered and it retained most of how it looks and I mean, a population of 1.4 billion? And like nearly all the younger generations are literate.
Eh, you don’t need to simplify it down so much.
I mean Simplified Chinese was just slightly altered and it retained most of how it looks and I mean, a population of 1.4 billion? And like nearly all the younger generations are literate.