Message from @Kaytee
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delet this
Also, the part about simplified characters promoting literacy is sort of a meme
@Kaytee the problem is the goal is to make more moral or at least more logical people. How many people do you think will actually take that away? How long unti standards are dropped because who the fuck needs to know that shit to chunk numbers?
while they did manage to sort out the illiteracy problem, taiwan and HK are getting on just fine with traditional characters <:thenk:329322130804047872>
simplification was a mistake
@johnfrum#8811 i mean, focusing higher education on getting a job is kinda a problem to begin with
most jobs that "Require" a degree just really, reallty don't
>small wealthy countries can afford to educate thier people better
>large relatively poor countries can't
This is why I don't like you.
any retard could sit at a desk and tap numbers into a spreadsheet
Do you know what simplifcation is though
why does that require degree
higher educatioin should be about what it says on the tin
when I send mainland chinks messages in traditional, they can read it no problem
not "prove you deserve this job by paying money"
@transience instead of pretty pictures it's now actual word sounds
Yes, that's better
simplification is still "pretty pictures" without the pretty part
also i wish we'd stop pressuring people to go to uni over trade school from such a ridiculous young age
@Kaytee yeah but piling on coursework to drive people further into debt isn't going to fix it though.
left is traditional, right is simplified http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/images/characters/TRADSIMP.GIF
@johnfrum#8811 i mean that's not an issue with the coursework that's an issue with america's for-profit everything
if you can read one, chances are that you can read the other
JAKE FIX YOUR SHITTY FUCKING BOTNET
the only real benefit of simplification is less strokes
i.e. easier to write
It's also easier to read and more efficient. Thought pinyin was phonetic tho.
pinyin is phonetic
You need to have a ground up social change
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Trying to change things by making school more tedious and longer in an attempt to instil logic will just make people hate college and increase the burden in the state if it was 'free'
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@transience what the fuck is traditional?
Column on the left are traditional characters
as you can see, the traditional character for door looks like a gate or a door
not so much with the simplified variant
with simplification, the characters lose their meaning
this is where traditional loses me, how the fuck is that supposed to look like a door or a horse or a scholar?