Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??

"Oliver" == Oliver Cromm <lispamateur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Oliver> Now I learned Chinese characters within Japanese, and the
Oliver> Japanese use of them is a bit more stretched: a character
Oliver> represents a family of morphemes with similar meanings,
Oliver> and can represent any other morpheme of similar meaning
Oliver> *exceptionally*.

So, the use of these characters in Japanese writing is very
ideographic.



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