Re: Chinese writing systems
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 3, 2002, 5:29 |
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Florian Rivoal wrote:
> Chinese people tend to confuse thoses prounoun when they speak
> englsih, this would indicate they are not homophones, but the same
> words. Yet, the writen form has three distinct characters.
True. But, those extra forms were devised to be more like the European
languages. There was originally just one written form.
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