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Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by meric on Saturday December 19, 2015 @07:52AM (#10763434)
Well, politically speaking a script system, by nature of its inertia, looks like it can hold a nation together a lot longer than Latin. Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, but evolution over the centuries means written Romance languages are no longer mutually intelligible. Today the former Roman Empire is split into dozens of states. Whereas, for Chinese, the number of states[1] is three. China, Taiwan, Singapore.

[1] the use in this case means the region in question has its own military.

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Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by anon4 on Saturday December 19, 2015 @10:53AM (#10763864)
Whether huge states vs lots of small states are desirable or not is another topic entirely though.
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Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by meric on Saturday December 19, 2015 @01:47PM (#10764424)
It's nice because otherwise I wouldn't be born, with each side of my family from different parts of China. :-)
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Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by yeehong on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:11PM (#10775273)
Singapore is in South-East Asia, and was a English colony with massive Chinese immigrants. Singapore was never part of China.
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Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by meric on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:33AM (#10776702)
Right, I was speaking in the contextual assumption where people with a common written language tended to congregate into the same "sphere", make it more likely they'll join into the same state at some point - and by Chinese I meant there are three Chinese language speaking states. The word "split" is applied to Europe, and not China. I added Singapore to make my case more "conservative".
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