The dictionary is in alphabetical order by Pinyin romanisation
I've never tried to deal with Chinese in any form, but that just sounds like a horrible idea. Romanisations of Arabic are the bane of my life; I keep just wanting the Arabic characters, which I might be able to read, and wondering why anyone would add a step between their reader and comprehension (since there must be very few people who can make anything of the romanisation and can't use characters)
I thought my primary objections to Simplified were merely aesthetic. Gradually, though, I'm beginning to realise a deeper problem: I've sunk a tremendous amount of energy... Now I'm being forced to relearn... and I resent it I have an idea that our aesthetic judgements are almost never autonomous, and that something like this (utility, or ease of remembering, or patterning) generally lurks underneath them, just out of sight. I can't give any good examples right now, however. Like everything I manage to think about, it seems obvious but hard to prove.
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Date: 2007-07-22 08:01 am (UTC)I've never tried to deal with Chinese in any form, but that just sounds like a horrible idea. Romanisations of Arabic are the bane of my life; I keep just wanting the Arabic characters, which I might be able to read, and wondering why anyone would add a step between their reader and comprehension (since there must be very few people who can make anything of the romanisation and can't use characters)
I thought my primary objections to Simplified were merely aesthetic. Gradually, though, I'm beginning to realise a deeper problem: I've sunk a tremendous amount of energy... Now I'm being forced to relearn... and I resent it
I have an idea that our aesthetic judgements are almost never autonomous, and that something like this (utility, or ease of remembering, or patterning) generally lurks underneath them, just out of sight. I can't give any good examples right now, however. Like everything I manage to think about, it seems obvious but hard to prove.