tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031289.post8737252418081359816..comments2010-01-22T13:47:01.819-05:00Mr. Iconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04350701606571489372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031289.post-75856867448010378152010-01-22T13:47:01.819-05:002010-01-22T13:47:01.819-05:00That&#39;s all well and good, but when are you going to put on a silly hat, drink some vodka and dance the can-can, damnit?!<br /><br />And my obligatory nitpick: a lot of people in mainland China still use traditional Chinese rather than simplified as well, not just Taiwanese / Hong Kongers. And why didn&#39;t you add Japanese in as well just to make sure your readers are *really* confused? :) For other comment readers, Japanese has three alphabets, two little ones and a big one, the big one being basically a subset/simplification of traditional Chinese, but not the same subset as simplified Chinese is. Most words in Japanese can be pronounced two ways, one derived from indigenous spoken Japanese, the other from (historical) Chinese pronounciation (though sufficiently changed over the years that it wouldn&#39;t bear a lot of resemblance to Chinese any more, to a Chinese speaker). Sort of like English, where we have so many damn words for everything because half of them come from Saxon and the other half from Latin, although not entirely. yay happy fun fun!adamwillhttp://adamwill.id.fedoraproject.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031289.post-53953487411279091382009-02-15T23:13:00.000-05:002009-02-15T23:13:00.000-05:00Being a mandarin background speaker, I can say your article is mostly accurate but I have to disagree with the cheque/check analogue: simplified Chinese looks more like text message/online chatting version of traditional Chinese--fragmented, oversimplified and sometimes makes no sense.Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606943336423367814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031289.post-62350610186602505502009-02-14T17:39:00.000-05:002009-02-14T17:39:00.000-05:00That was the most coherent explanation of that mess I've ever read. Thanks for explaining. :)Luishttp://tieguy.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031289.post-24039746879821637782009-02-14T13:33:00.000-05:002009-02-14T13:33:00.000-05:00wow! You can read Mandarin? <BR/><BR/>*ducks, runs, and hides* <BR/><BR/>I kid, I kid. Great blog entry. Thanks!Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10471234837140977994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031289.post-21376325716639780602009-02-14T11:26:00.000-05:002009-02-14T11:26:00.000-05:00What can I say, I'm a big nerd. :)Mr. Iconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04350701606571489372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031289.post-46885508737655347922009-02-14T11:09:00.000-05:002009-02-14T11:09:00.000-05:00You can read Chinese? Simplified or otherwise? Wow.Alishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894712296619594940noreply@blogger.com