Should China adopt a more efficient/logical writing system such as Zhuyin?
Should Chinese solely be based on Zhuyin, or should it be a mix of Chinese characters where Zhuyin is used for purely phonetic words such as foreign words, similar to katakana.
Doesn't Chinese have many words that are pronounced exactly the same but have different meanings? Chinese has like 20 000 different symbols (and thus, 20 000 different meanings), but only like 1 700 different possible combinations for letters and tone, so it will be propably harder to understand what the writer meant.
Also, Cantonese and Mandarin use same writing system and they can understand written Cantonese and Mandarin. However, they are not mutually intelligible when spoken, so it can cause problems too.
>>52037694
They can understand each other in the same way a Japanese can understand Chinese. It's just that the characters are same.
That's why they should mix Zhuyin with Hanzí like katakana and kanji
>>52037458
No. Chinese has too many homophones, being a tonal language and all. Arbitrarily changing the writing system will render all Chinese unable to read classics and historical documents in the future unless they're super autists. Unless you're a marxist hell-bent on destroying another ancient and homogeneous culture then I'd say your idea is fucking stupid.
Everyone should adopt the Latin Alphabet and set aside all of their Archaic Picture words.
That includes you, Eastern Europe and Greece.
Better adopting Zhuyin than forcing Esperanto on everyone else.
>>52037458
if it's anything like katakana then it belongs in the trash
>>52037984
Esperanto is a pile of shit language. It claims to be international, yet it is purely European in structure.
>>52038036
Exactly. Esperanto, the metric system, and the Gregorian calendar are all European-derived garbage. We should not impose our culture on everyone else.
>>52037918
>Unless you're a marxist hell-bent on destroying another ancient and homogeneous culture
The Chinese did that to themselves already senpai
>>52038036
it's essentially a replacement for latin, which was the lingua franca of europe. however, east asia doesn't need a replacement lingua franca because they already have mandarin and cantonese.
>>52038083
"we" aren't imposing our culture on anybody. it's vital to at least use the gregorian calendar and the metric system to deal business with foreign nations efficiently. the lunar calendar is still the de facto calendar in korea, vietnam, china, and taiwan in terms of determining major holidays and zodiac signs, etc.
>>52038083
Last time I checked USa was in America
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never heard of "Zhuyin".
>>52037458
Nah senpai. China shouldn't use Zhuyin in their writing, but they should use it in textbooks and stuff next to the characters (like they do in Taiwan) to make pronunciation easier.
Learned traditional, can confirm it helped a lot.
>>52037972
Yeah, look at how great that turned out for Vi̤̊è̥̈t̬nà̋me̘᷈᷄sé̌.
>>52038229
Yeah, but Mao was still a Chinese man (albeit a severely retarded one). The goal of simplifying the Chinese script was to make learning easier for mudfuck peasants and to bring the "bourgeois" (read: civilised) citizens down a notch. What the OP is suggesting is bringing an even more drastic change to an already mutilated writing system, just to make it more accessible to the lowest common denominator such as himself.
Granted, the invention of a new script by places like Korea and Japan worked, but only because it made better sense to write their languages in a native writing system. Same thing went for the Turks in their adoption of a modified Latin script. Again, it simply does not make sense to change a logogram system into a syllabary system simply because "it worked for Japen desu"
>>52037984
Ironically, Esperanto is the only language that isn't forced on people.
English is literally a forced meme. Nobody would speak it unless they were threatened with genocide.
>>52038478
Last time I checked USA is America.
