Tuesday, June 4, 2013

How to Promote Chinese (or any other) Culture to the World

SOME LANGUAGES are weaker than others when it comes to adaption, survival, and - eventually - dominating others. [READ BLOG AT BIG THINK]

China is not the only modern nation that rose to become a superpower, but it is the first that doesn't have an alphabet.
The letters Chinauses for phonetic transcription today – called 'pinyin' – had been imported from the West. Originally, the Chinese characters' pronunciation had to be memorized from the go-get. There are some 45,000 of them!

So unless the world is switching into rote learning mode any time soon, which is unlikely because English with its 26 letters is so much more lucid, how could the Chinese language neverthelessinfluence the way people all over the world think (and act)?


The solution is simple but takes guts to implement: Stop translating Chinese key terminologies. Here's why: READ IT AT SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.
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1 comment:

  1. DavidLJJune 5, 2013 at 7:33 PM

    Well, it's obvous, innit? The world is getting used to binary communication, so what could be more appropriate than Morse code: dots and dashes, binary all the way.

    No more need to memorise 26 clumsy alphabetical letters, (some of them Italic, some of them Roman) plus a bunch of Arabic numbers with Hindu backgrounds. Morse code cuts through these arbitrary complexities.

    Alphabets are clearly doomed!

    -dlj.

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