shokenchi said:
theres not much difference between simplified and traditional chinese, just fewer strokes. it was introduced to increase literacy in china since traditional characters are harder to write for illiterate chinese people. chinese dictionaries have both simplified and traditional so people can learn it by themselves easily. all chinese calligraphy is written in traditional chinese. all the popular chinese newpaper in usa are in tradtional chinese and mainland immigrants have no trouble reading them. ironically, chinese government publish their news in traditional chinese for hong kong readers since most of them doesnt know simplified chinese because its not taught in schools. singapore also uses the same simplified system as mainland china now. as for the gaming industry in china, most gamers play pc games. recently nhk news reported that chinese gaming industry is only second behind usa in terms of revenue and will increase next year. |
I hear that there are heated debates from different sides on whether or not China should go back to 100% traditional because simplified is pretty much an ugly fuckfest but the younger generation are prolly too lazy and spoiled to want to change to a more complicated system. The more populated areas in China are in no way illiterate anymore though, they should go back to traditional for the masses in a stretched out process, would take years but at least it would preserve the culture since Chinese characters as a whole is a major part of the Chinese culture and simplified doesn't go by that, it's just for the illiterate farmers from more than 60 years ago. There are other problems too, I personally think pinyin is a better system for typing, but for pronunciation purposes, the way from Taiwan is more accurate yet more a pain in the ass for older people to learn from scratch and hell for typing even with the new way to do it.
