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ah, those well known scholars Embuggerance & Feisty (2008). Cambridge University Press, no less.
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this has to be some of the most delightful, innovative iPhone art I've seen!
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"我们国家之所以落后…汉字难是很重要的原因。从这种感情出发,他们急于要改革汉字。这两种感情,一种要爱护汉字,一种要改革汉字,看上去是矛盾的,对立的,其实都是一个出发点:爱祖国。" — or, sometimes loving something necessitates changing it.
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On xiaoerjin – Chinese written phonetically in Arabic script, by Chinese Muslims who would be fluent in spoken Chinese but literate only in Arabic! Conclusion: romanization not inevitable, though in modern times, quite irresistible.
October 23, 2009
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