Re: Your vote on a common global language

From: Miguel Cruz (mnc_at_admin.u.nu)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:58:58 -0600

Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>>>>>> "Miguel" == Miguel Cruz <mnc@admin.u.nu> writes:
> Miguel> And also include a time penalty for the additional
> Miguel> precision required to make the Chinese characters actually
> Miguel> legible.
>
> I don't think it is more difficult than making sure you write the 6
> letters "mother" legibly. I write both words (Chinese and English for
> "mother") in approx. the same amount of time.

Yes, but like I said, "mother" is one of those words where Chinese is terser
than average. Now try it with "limp" or "stash".

miguel 

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