In a message dated 5/22/2011 4:38:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, smole...@eunet.rs writes:
> Aren't these languages written with Chinese characters and thus their > speakers can read and write the Chinese Wikipedia? > All the Latin languages: Italian, French, Spanish, English, and so on are written with Latin characters: a, b, c, d, e and so on. And yet the French cannot pick up a book in Spanish and read it. Just because a language is written with Chinese characters does not mean that the words and meanings are spoken or comprehensible by any other language user using those same characters for other words and meanings. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
