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


LEE Sau Dan wrote:
"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Artur> Polish used to have a lot of family relation terms, but
Artur> it's been losing them like crazy. Are you suggesting that
Artur> it's going to the dogs?

>> Not me. It's PTD.

Peter> No, you're the one that thinks a language should have "a
Peter> lot of family relation terms."

And you're the one who thinks a language should have a separate term
for each currency unit, instead of a *generic* one.

Every country in the world assigns a name to its own currency (plus
names for the subdivisions). Why are the Chinese so arrogant as to
think it's ok to replace those names with the name of its own currency
for referring to them?

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