Message from @johnfrum
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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
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?
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
You told me they were phonetic
pinyin is
the third column
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both traditional and simplified are logograms