From: "Jonathan Chang" <Zhang2323@...>
> PinYin is not the best solution for a Romanized Mandarin, but
> it's a Chinese solution in a fruitful road (hopefully) toward an
> "auxilary Mandarin".
> PinYin could never really replace the ancient logographic
(written)
> language. The literal & literary riches of the logographic Chinese
stretches
> from the archaic Oracle Bone Script (circa 3000 BCE, approximately) to
> contemporary Chinese "concrete/language" poetry. That is nearly 5,000
some
> years of history.
>
> Maybe the "West" needs to create its own logographic system. Now
> that would be a language reform. ;)
English might as well use a logographic system. I'm really impressed
with Blissymbolics, though. (That could be used for other languages,
just as Chinese characters are used outside of China.)
Danny