Those who question my English capability are deadly wrong. My English level is totally irrelevant with my stance since I have never suggested using English to replace Hanzi. Actually contradicting to what they thought, I have opposed such kind of national linguistic policy openly in this forum. What I have pointed out was that alphabetical writing system has so many significant advantages over pictographic or ideographic language in social development. These advantages are critical developing factors for China. I can track back most of the historical problems of China to Hanzi and I have explained some of them in details. This is so obvious to me and I don’t expect anyone here who said that they have lived in US for years would have any problem to understand it. China can adopt the same idea to create an alphabetical system of its own. This is not something we can’t do but rather an issue of whether we are willing to do. What I don’t understand is why such a profound, serious and interesting topic is so offensive to many people that they start pouring dirty words to me.
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