what are your thoughts on learning mandarin?? do you think it will be useful in the next 5-10 years when war breaks out? I'm also in finance and I have connections to Hong Kong
Why a huge part of world can create a simple and useful character system but chineses and japanese can't...
Michael Hughes
Logan Morgan
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Adam Robinson
Just change the every in your statement to most and it's fine. Also, sound was never mentioned in the initial statement so that is irrelevant. Another thing to consider is that we have no idea if the initial poster was talking about Japanese or Chinese. Finally, I think you misinterpreted what the the initial poster meant. I took his statement to mean that if you know the meaning of two characters and see those two characters together you can infer that meaning. So for Japanese, if you know 大 and 人 it's pretty easy to guess what 大人 means. Or if you know 水 and 着 it's pretty easy to infer what 水着 means.
Brandon Moore
>t. brainlet デビドくん
Tell me the difference between 花, 話, 鼻, and 華 in kana
Michael Gomez
Basically because Rome. Europe was very heavily influenced by Roman practices. Taking Roman letters was often easier than coming up with your own way to represent stuff. Europe colonized the rest of the world, so the rest of the world got a taste of the BRC.
Americas, Africa, and Australia had no character system, but they do now.