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     14 days ago  

    It's recently become apparent that recognition of Chinese characters is much higher than the ability to read them aloud. Some of that recognition came from time spent reading chemistry papers and Chinese-language forums

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       14 days ago  

      A key insight about Chinese character writing is that being non-phonetic is a deliberate feature and fundamentally inherent

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         14 days ago  

        One doesn't need to speak Han Chinese to understand the meaning — the characters convey the same ideas regardless of spoken language, with no dialectal variation

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           14 days ago  

          It's a universal writing system, but not simply a spoken language written down. Strange stuff

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