I was reading Silver-dot's blog and i thot.. u gotta be kidding me... what has anything got to do how the chinese write their mandarin? its crazy!

den i googled - http://pinyin.info/news/2006/un-to-drop-traditional-chinese-characters-report/

and than there's a pretty legit looking - http://www.gopetition.com/region/237/8314.html


Altho Singapore only uses Simplfied Chinese, its not that difficult to master, appreciate and understand Trad Chinese. In fact Trad Chinese in HK and Taiwanese comic books pulled my mother tongue grades up tremendously from Cs to As, with no extra effort. - Ok, i had a terror of a China teacher too. ;o)

I always thot that trad chinese are a beautiful language capable of conveying every little naunce of emotions. Whereas simplfied chinese, altho easier to write, loses much in between the lines. Its like trying to read Nicolas Sparks in sms lanaguage you know. Its just not the same.

I don't know abt you, but I'm signed the petition.

Yesss!
Cyber high-five! Good for you, good for us. Thanks! ;)
» Silver-dot- on 2007-05-23 12:30:05

I signed it too!
» Southern on 2007-05-23 12:38:19

To be honest
I think it's a bit of an overreaction.
» theZEBRA on 2007-05-23 04:30:18

i cant read trad chinese!!!! i was stuck in taiwan trying to figure out what all the different flavours of bubble tea was and i couldnt order anything i liked!!!!
» Koban on 2007-05-23 10:18:14

u mean you can read simplified chinese in the first place? Koban... if i rem correctly, your chinese sucks
» merrick on 2007-05-24 12:58:22

i got no issue with trad or simp chn, either way its fine..but im more concerned whether china is gg to force their will on the un over other issues in the future just like this one since hk and taiwan got no representation. ttz just so goddamned communist.
» HellSinG on 2007-05-26 06:52:35

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