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我一向都討厭簡體字.....

就算依度有得take mandarin我都唔take
因為我驚睇完o的簡體字會搞到我將o的字混淆哂

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yeah
I can read 簡體, but I don't like it

I took japanese in high school even tho I could choose mandarin lol
but I was never interested in mandarin in the first place. I remember that I felt asleep so many times during mandarin class when I was in HK elementary XD

for me it's ok not to speak mandarin
cuz I won't be doing business/dealing with customers anyway~

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I know how to read both 繁體字 and 簡體字. But I think ppl should learn 繁體字 so as to learn the real meaning behind each chinese character. a lot of the 簡體字 cannot really be explained... ...
布小熊 發表於 2009-3-18 10:44

they really should

cuz a lot of the 簡體字 are just using 同音字
it confuses people all the time, for example they use like 面 for 麵, by taking the 麥 away (but 麵 itself tells you what noodel is made of)
but 面 can also be face too. It's just so much better to know 繁體

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9# tofu


吓，你講緊high school定U @@?
因為我o係ubc無聽人講過有台灣老師呢
有我又唔介意學下呀，不過我好快就grad就真....^^;

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I heard it's after

people say 簡體 is a product of the commie

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I meant, for English, people can't "guess" the meaning just by looking at the spelling of the words. According to Chinese culture, yep, we can guess/know the meaning of some of the words just by look ...
Ultraman 發表於 2009-3-18 17:50

of course you can tell the meaning of an english word by reading it @_@

most of the scientific terms in fact has meaning, like fibbi pointed out, which is derived from latin. (well cuz I study science, so I know many scientific terms have meaning of each part of the word. Maybe there are many more similar cases in the art field too)

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20# chunsh


I guess I would rather study more english la

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12# tofu


well I am not desperate to learn Mandarin, so that's ok la, haha
I prefer learning more japanese @w@ and never regret taking the courses

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The very main point is:
You don't get confusion in 繁體 like the 面 issue in 簡體

putting 一睇個字就知佢咩意思依個問題 aside
each word has it's own distinct character/appearance in 繁體

there's no problem to have same pronounciation for different words
as long as they are not over using the same word for every other meanings

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37# tofu
exactly, basic knowlege is the point

music is a language
math is a language
chemistry is a language
physics is a language

if you know nothing about them, you can tell nothing of them
once you know the basic, it's so much easier to approach