Hoi,
Please read about the Chinese language and writing system. It helps you to
understand.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 May 2011 18:42, <[email protected]> wrote:
> In a message dated 5/22/2011 4:38:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [email protected] 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.
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