Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin
| From: | Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 8, 2001, 9:28 |
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Cheng Zhong Su wrot:
> Answer:Yes, it's a trouble for the Chinese writing
> system. It was improved by simplified characters, in
> mainland China. Yet I don't agree that leave the
> ambiguities alone. The fun of mind is to compose some
> thing not to remember words. For poetries may be not
> important but for a scientific student, things will be
> different.
I think, for scientific purposes, we already have an (almost) unambiguous,
and fairly short language. It is called mathematical notation, and there are
all kinds of devised standards for it.
Maarten