Okok, guys. Lets us continue our topic: The great difference between English and Chinese. As I mentioned in last post, English is infinite! Because a lot of words are only belonging to professional, no matter is Literature and Science. For examples, a student who researched English poem and literature will never able to read "The Origin of Life (C. Darwin)" or "The Theory of Relativity", same as us (maybe me only) also cannot read a Shakespeare's poem or even Lord of the Rings. That's why living in English world is so.... so... so helpless when no dictionary around you.
English is first dimensional(1D), is a line-form language, unlike Chinese! English also is a bunch of codes. Writing English is Coding, Reading English is Code-breaking!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, just imagine, if you change 'a,b,c,d,e' into '1,2,3,4,5', theoretically, english is just a group of CODES!!! For examples, cab can be written as 312, bad is 214 and so on. If using some pronounciation, there is nothing different between them!!!
Chinese is totally different with English. Chinese is second dimensional(2D), fully using the geometrical space of paper. EVERY CHINESE CHARACTER IS A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE!! That is so great what our ancestors have invented!! Ask you simple question, if get an information from a picture and code, which method is faster?? Hahahaha.... Chinese National Standard of anti-illiterate is knowing 1500 chinese characters, a requirement of university entry for normal science courses is just 2000 to 3000 characters, with this 3000 characters, everyone can study, read newspaper, do research easily and effectively. I think that I can manage more than 10000 characters...
But, but, in english world, if you don't know more than 20000 words, you will never read a STAR newspaper. If you english database is less than 30000 word, please forget about TIME. A normal graduate known at least 80000 words. Since the millions of new technology, new inventions appear in this era, our english dictionary is getting thicker and thicker......
星期日, 八月 21, 2005
Beauty of Oriental
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Brilliant, although it appears to be rather bias. Nice to see another local thinker who actually liberated from the 'banana-ic' mental colonisation.
At least, not all of our genertion are not the blind worshipper of the west.
Hmmmm....I believe in only one thing....That knowing both languages is still the best....
I am always proud of the fact that I am a chinese and that also the fact that I am able to speak in english....It is not about how much we know at times but to know that we need to continue learning under all circumstances....
Why compare the both when both of these languages has a different purpose, one serving as a bridge for all citizens of the world while the other, a cross over the larghest populated race on earth...
Be it a language inspired by pictures or codes, knowing both makes one higher and better than others.
I am learning and picking up chinese though at an old age yet at the same time,brushing my english constantly...
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