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

Am 14 Mar 2007 13:08:08 -0700 schrieb Peter T. Daniels:

On Mar 14, 12:52 pm, Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 14 Mar 2007 05:25:07 -0700 schrieb Peter T. Daniels:



I don't, either - Chinese kept its 100 or so ideographs and added a few
thousand semantically annotated phonographic characters (is there an
agreed term for characters that represent sound?).

Actually, you have that backward. The phonetic portion disambiguates
the semantic portion, not vice versa.

What's the basis for this view? Historically, yes, of course, but how
do you support it synchronically?

Synchronically, there is no such function. Characters simply have both
components. Neither has priority.

I think it might be wrong historically as well. After the pictographs,
they started using characters to denote homophones of the originally
denoted words. Only later, when the limitations of this became
obvious, the method of combining a semantical and a phongraphic
component was introduced. It doesn't make sense to give any of them
historic priority. As for logical priority, the selectivity of the
components speaks for priority of the phonographic portion - see
Oliver's post.

Joachim
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