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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Simplified English
- Message-ID: <12230@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 13:40:20 GMT
- References: <C03yA7.2oIx@austin.ibm.com>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <C03yA7.2oIx@austin.ibm.com> tylee@leety.austin.ibm.com (Ty Lee) writes:
- >In the Chinese world, there has been a movement to promote the idea
- >of simplifying the strokes in writing the Chinese characters.
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- Not the strokes. The strokes are simple enough. What is being
- simplified are the characters themselves.
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- >Some argues that this will save time in coding the language into computer.
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- Oh? It certainly will do nothing of the sort. But it is reasonably
- supposed to save time in coding the writing into the learner's head.
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- >Is there any similar movement going that will simplify the English language?
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- Hold it. In what way would a movement to simplify the English
- _language_ be similar to a movement to simplify the Chinese _script_?
-
- Read Book 3 of J Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_.
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