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Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development by wodenokoto on Friday January 22, 2016 @06:24AM (#10952111)
We are talking about written languages, not spoken.

Moreover I find your last sentence to contradict the previous. I don't know what you are trying to say, but you are talking about a different domain.

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Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development by Arnt on Friday January 22, 2016 @07:55AM (#10952401)
I'm curious. Why?

I know there have been attempts to each people purely spoken language and purely written, but those are rare. In practice the two seem strongly connected.

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