David Silberstein wrote: > Warning: I am not an expert on Chinese writing systems. Warning: My wife is Chinese. :-) > When I spoke to someone who *does* know Chinese, he explained that > Traditional Chinese has more information in the character than > Simplified Chinese, which means that even if the character is > unfamiliar, you can guess approximately what it refers to. The > example he gave was that all ideographs that refer to fish have the > "fish" radical (a radical is a sub-component of an entire ideograph) > in Traditional Chinese, whereas in Simplified Chinese, this radical is > changed or lacking. Maybe, but the writing system _is_ simpler. In a way. Despite being pretty much universally condemned. Those Maoists, what a silly bunch. -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/