Anonymous
11/2/2025, 1:31:36 PM
No.82989176
>>82989097
>The chinese themselves saw the need for modernisation which is why pin yin and english classes were rolled out nation wide with the recent generation.
This is both a product of convenience and global pressure. Had China simply colonized the world 1000 years ago, as was in their power to do so, such a thing would not be. As it stands, it was England who colonized the world, so now China circumstantially has chosen to implement both the pinyin phonetic system and a complimentary universal English language program. This should not be viewed as a necessity, but rather as a reaction, though I am willing to admit that a phenetic intermediary between the spoken language and the pictographic script (i.e. pinyin) has been a helpful educational institution.
>The "elements" you're talking about may occasionally offer some indication of meaning but more often than not the connection is extremely tenuous or non existant.
For most of the standard script, the meaning is relatively straightforward. I suppose it does take some degree of intrinsic pattern recognition to associate something like "black" with "dark", but this may be why the Chinese score so highly on IQ tests.
>The chinese themselves saw the need for modernisation which is why pin yin and english classes were rolled out nation wide with the recent generation.
This is both a product of convenience and global pressure. Had China simply colonized the world 1000 years ago, as was in their power to do so, such a thing would not be. As it stands, it was England who colonized the world, so now China circumstantially has chosen to implement both the pinyin phonetic system and a complimentary universal English language program. This should not be viewed as a necessity, but rather as a reaction, though I am willing to admit that a phenetic intermediary between the spoken language and the pictographic script (i.e. pinyin) has been a helpful educational institution.
>The "elements" you're talking about may occasionally offer some indication of meaning but more often than not the connection is extremely tenuous or non existant.
For most of the standard script, the meaning is relatively straightforward. I suppose it does take some degree of intrinsic pattern recognition to associate something like "black" with "dark", but this may be why the Chinese score so highly on IQ tests.