http://ponderingstuff.com/2010/02/06/spelling-is-tough-in-mandarin/ Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ponderingstuff.com/2010/02/06/spelling-is-tough-in-mandarin/#comment-299 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:01:31 +0000 http://ponderingstuff.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-299 It appears to me that it is disingenuous to compare the number of Mandarin characters to the number of English letters. Even in the examples above, the characters represent words, not letters. I do not know Mandarin, but it seems to me that the closer Mandarin equivalent to English Letters are the dashes, lines, boxes, etc. that make up the Mandarin “characters.” There are a lot more than 10,000 words in the English language.

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