They like to pretend that the writing was simplified because of the Big Mean Communists when it reality it was going to be simplified no matter what, and they just held onto their old system for anti-Communists reasons-- a political incidence.
/sino/
okay-- and before the handheld phone was predicted and there was widespread illiteracy they should have done what?
taiwan had widespread illiteracy too. they did fine.
mandarin is so fucking hard
study it for 4 years, didn't use it for quite some time, and i'm back to being illiterate
>mandarin is so fucking hard
it's the easiest language. you are very dumb.
We helped Taiwan, we still help Taiwan, Taiwan exists as it does because of us.
I don't agree that you can just hand-wave away a problem like illiteracy. What's an illiterate person supposed to do when they can't even read the contract that binds them to debt?
maybe for gooks like you who reads moonrunes daily, but not for me
>What's an illiterate person supposed to do when they can't even read the contract that binds them to debt?
you learn.
japan and taiwan was once very poor countries, they industrialized with traditional characters and their illiteracy is
Because simplified chinese is fucking ugly like mainlander.
Grammar does sound simple.
It's rather cool that the ending of the words don't differ just because it's a different situation.
Unlike hungarian where every ending depends what situation the object is in.