Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin
| From: | Cheng Zhong Su <suchengzhong@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 1:12 |
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--- Dan Sulani wrote:
> >the VAST majority of
> > language use is in non-scientific everyday
> situations where complete
> clarity
> > SIMPLY ISN'T AN OBJECTIVE.
> >
Answer: Your reason is mainly that since language is
playful tool, we don't need care too much about the
accuracy. In fact, the accuracy is just one of the
side product of increasing the number of 'phonetic
types'. A language is just a balance betwwen 'phonetic
types', memory, and imagination. Increast the number
of 'phonetic types' is the mean of make things easy to
remember while increast the things that we can get by
imagination. Any way, before you can play words or
symbols, you have to remember them. The only different
is some languages need less remembrance, some
languages need more.
Su Cheng Zhong
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