Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary

"António" == António Marques <m.ap@xxxxxxx> writes:

António> 2. You should know that chinese characters do represent
António> words and not concepts.

Then, what do they represent?


António> Hint: if they did represent concepts,

They do.


António> the japanese wouldn't have to have invented
António> hiragana.

Sorry, I think Hiragana's were invented to address the need of writing
_grammatical inflections_. They use Hiragana's together with Kanji's
to write. Kanji's for the word stem; Hiragana's for the inflectional
parts. Hiragana's were not meant to replace Kanji. (They did try to
eliminate Kanji's, but failed.)



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