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justinwilliams
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Message 65 of 69

19 September 2007 at 8:31pm | IP Logged

You won...From your well chosen quotes people are going to think I only wrote gibberish which I'm sure you think is true.

Edited by justinwilliams on 19 September 2007 at 8:35pm
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19 September 2007 at 8:42pm | IP Logged

justinwilliams wrote:

From your well chosen quotes people are going to think I only wrote gibberish which I'm sure you think is true.

You chose to delete your posts, and are now implying I'm going to make you look bad with the parts you couldn't delete. Interesting. :^)
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Message 67 of 69

19 September 2007 at 8:59pm | IP Logged

FSI wrote:

As j.c., I, and others pointed out earlier (if not in this thread, then in the "English is forever" one, and in similar versions of this sort of debate), a language and a writing system are two completely different things. Are all languages objectively equal? Sure. Are all orthographies? Nope. If desired, one can try to form rankings for writing systems - but the varying difficulties of writing systems have as much to do with the oral languages themselves as various forms of music notation (standard, tablature, etc) have to do with music. They're attempts at capturing the spoken language, and some writing systems are a much greater aid to learning the spoken languages than are others.

I was actually referring to Darobat and Chung's first posts wherein they reference Chinese characters.

When someone says they learned to read Chinese and I ask, "the language or the writing system?" they're going to give me strange looks because from the point of view of most learners, native or otherwise, learning a writing system is part and parcel of learning a language.
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lloydkirk
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Message 68 of 69

19 September 2007 at 9:48pm | IP Logged

justin: Don't give him the time of day. People like FSI always have the last word and are apparently incapable of reading the words of others.

I'm off to find some aspirin...

Cheers Everyone

Edited by lloydkirk on 19 September 2007 at 9:54pm
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19 September 2007 at 10:27pm | IP Logged

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