Re: Chinese character & pinyin frequency analysis

"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter> Every few centuries, China utterly wipes out its entire
Peter> previous culture.
>> But they can't wipe out people's memory. Nor can they do
>> anything outside their sovereignty: Hong Kong, Taiwan.

Peter> ??

Peter> The most recent attempt was called the Cultural Revolution.
>> And what was before that?

Peter> I'm hardly an expert in Chinese civilization, but ISTR that
Peter> the script reform of ca. 200 BCE involved the rounding up
Peter> and destruction of every copy of every Classic then in
Peter> existence.

Yeah, and that was successful?

Then, how come you can still find Confucius's works? There must have
been magic protecting the 5000-year-old "Book of Changes" from
Qin2Shi3Huang2Di4's book destruction campaign.


>> And how was the US Civil War anything better?

Peter> I don't know of any book-burnings in the Civil War.

Peter> Or maybe the construction of immense dams that destroy
Peter> hundreds or thousands of archeological sites,
>> There are no dams nor hydroelectricity plants in your country?
>> Your country never cut trees to make rooms for living?

Peter> I don't know of any wholesale and deliberate destructions
Peter> of archeological sites.

Maybe, you're unaware of them?

There has been lots of destructions of the ancient cultures of Maya,
Inca, etc. in Latin America. What makes you think the original
culture of North America is immune from similar massacres?


Peter> let alone displacing millions of living people.
>> Sour grapes? Your country have never been bold enough to
>> carry out such a huge scale construction project?

Peter> Your chauvinism is fueling your display of ignorance. Hve
Peter> you ever seen a picture of Manhattan, or of Chicago?

Why look at those tiny villages? Have you ever BEEN TO Tokyo, Peking,
Shanghai, Taipei, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong? Have you ever seen a
picture of Osaka, London, Bueno Aires, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Mexico
City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, ...?


>> And how about protection of ethnic minorities? Have you not
>> cheated the aboriginals to give up their lands for you to build
>> houses and factories? Have you never imported dieseases from
>> Europe to kill the aboriginals? How many people can still
>> speak the aboriginal languages? How well is the original
>> culture in North America preserved?

Peter> A Han Chinaman is hardly one to speak of maltreatment of
Peter> ethnic minorities.

You have to choose to evade my question?


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