Chinese traditional characters: worth learning? - Page 3

On November 02 2009 08:37 blue_arrow wrote:


yeah thats the entire point of not asking random ppl on the street, no references = no credibility on an anonymous internet forum, no matter how seemingly excellent a piece of content you provide, content can always always be fabricated dude

edit: this article isn't complete and absolute bullshit that should be eradicated from the face of the earth, it provides facts and references and an education on the topic, perfection notwithstanding; it has so far done a better job of providing knowledge to us than this thread. so why not build upon it? slamming down the entire article and influencing others to not read it is not the way to go.

also i find this whole ordeal regarding wikipedia contributors' comments incredibly, incredibly ironic

On November 02 2009 10:46 Sad[Panda] wrote:


Its hard to reference "facts" when you really dont have any... even the "facts" presented are all opinions to that person as to why they think pro traditional or pro simplified.

Edit: also I think we did a better job debating it here than in there for the facts that by a landslide most people posted traditional first = harder to read simplified, simplified first = easier to read traditional, and that we are generally staying on topic t.t; as apposed to the wiki article where its a he said she said clusterfuck t.t;

Edit2: oh csheep quoted some dude who raped your wiki article and makes this pointless meh w.e xD

On November 02 2009 13:07 writer22816 wrote:
The "simplified is corrupting Chinese heritage" argument is bullshit. Foot binding is a heritage, why don't we reinstate that?

On November 02 2009 11:17 Superiorwolf wrote:
Yes, traditional makes more sense in terms of how the characters are constructed, but simplified is probably the more practical one in most of the areas you'll be going to. If you're learning both, that's fine and good. In my Chinese class right now actually, the teachers teach traditional but we are allowed to use simplified if we want, so I can recognize both fairly easily. The only complaint I have about traditional is that because sometimes they have more strokes, on the computer they are kind of difficult to see and look like blotches of black sometimes. Still, for the cultural understanding of Chinese, learning traditional is fine.

Of course, from my perspective, learning simplified with traditional alongside is extremely easy. I can't always recognize traditional characters that we haven't read yet, but traditional supplementing simplified is pretty easy to do. I recommend you continue simplified and learn the traditional versions for each of the words you study. Also, most of the words are nearly identical with a few less strokes in simplified, and there are many words that are the same in both simplified and traditional, so learning both is not that difficult. Even the word 书, although pretty different in simplified, looks pretty similar to the traditional version.

As well, you'll see a lot of patterns, like the differences in strokes between radicals like in 门， 学， 又， etc - so many of the changes from traditional to simplified are just simplification of radicals (the radical on top of 学 is crazy in traditional o.o).

On November 02 2009 13:18 Retsukage wrote:
On a separate but related note, I am currently doing Chinese/Japanese calligraphy in a course in my university. Does anyone have some cool star craft driven phrase I could write out? I mean does anyone know the character for strategy? that kind of thing?
In case anyone happened to be interested here is one character I wrote, and then imposed on a photo of mine.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-goodmorning-/4067407890/

On November 02 2009 14:55 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
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