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

On Mar 25, 8:03 pm, LEE Sau Dan <dan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
ekkilu> In Taiwan, the PC kingdom of the world, less than 20% of
ekkilu> seniors get on line. That's the reality check.

That's just statistics. It doesn't indicate what the causes are.

Don't you have any elder relatives? Don't you see any elder people in
Hong Kong? Do they type e-mail in Chinese? Or do they, as you said,
just have very low IQ?

ekkilu> (1) Great Leap Forward: ...
ekkilu> (2) High accident rate in Asian airlines: ...
ekkilu> (3) SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome): ...

How do your examples relate to writing systems?

It relates to the ostrich mentality of some Chinese people in refusing
to even acknowledge there is a problem with their writing system. This
attitude is known as the "Asian value", malaise of Confucianism.

The writing system actually made their language non-colloquial.
Chinese is the language that is most vocally confusing. People that
work in the field of voice recognition software know that. They know
that Italian is the most easily recognizable language, then Spanish.
Chinese comes at the bottom. People in the West can use telephone
keypads to enter text strings, e.g.: when dialing into a the telephone
directory of a company, you can dial the first three letters and reach
the extension of the person. You can spell out your name. All too many
Western 80 year olds learn to write with computers as my friend's
grandma, while I see with my own eyes all too many Taiwanese/Chinese
elders being unable to write with computers. I see people having hard
time using maps. I see lack of keyword indices in Chinese technical
books/journals. I see people having hard time finding their names on
name lists. I see people suffering from the drawbacks of the Chinese
writing system. You prefer to put all these problems on your ambulance
and take them for a ride, and then yell at those elderly people: "if
you have a problem, you must have a very low IQ".

-- Ekki

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