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Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development by temp on Friday January 22, 2016 @04:38AM (#10951755)
>So to summarize, dude who speaks English doesn't want to learn other languages, says it should just be converted to English (pinyin) because English is _obviously_ a language with no faults at all and would be the best choice in this case. /s

Did you even read the article? The author wrote a critique of English and listed problems non-natives have with it and its potential unsuitability as a lingua franca. Then they received a question regarding Chinese and this is their follow-up and answer to what it is that makes Chinese potentially unsuitable as a lingua franca.

If what you got from the article is "they're too lazy to learn Chinese and think English has no faults" then you didn't really even try to comprehend the article.

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Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development by swang on Friday January 22, 2016 @09:20AM (#10952797)
I actually totally missed that one-liner at the top, which unless you follow this guy, would make it seem like he was promoting a pro-English view. So any of my comments regarding English I withdraw.

I still think his view about Chinese characters is _wrong_, especially when he uses the extremes of Chinese problems as arguments against Chinese completely.

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