>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.

skilled trades are important and one can make a good living doing em

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

@Kaytee making it free won't fix anything though

You need to have a ground up social change

ye

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFW4AiHYKAY

this is where traditional loses me, how the fuck is that supposed to look like a door or a horse or a scholar?

Character for speech has the radical for language

with the simplified variant, it's just some line

that's one of the main arguments in favour of traditional

it's arguably harder to decipher the meaning when you don't have these features

The charecters didn't lose thier meaning, they became words instead of pictures.
Then again communists have universally terrible ideas so you might have a point

Oh, they're still pictures alright

but instead, they're like pictures of abstract art