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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Will the Taiwan's school systems use Pin Yin over Standard Phonetics Symbols in teaching Chinese? (was Re: Mao's Alphabet (2nd posting)
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On 25 Dec 1996 22:05:53 -0500, in article <59sq2h$2tm@acmez.gatech.edu>, STAN MULAIK <pscccsm@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Just a matter of curiosity:  does the new simplified version of Chinese
>writing make it more difficult for modern Chinese to read the documents
>of their ancestors?

Yes (in a sense). The mapping from traditional characters to the so-called
simplified is not one-to-one. In some cases two or more words with very
different meanings would be indistinguishable when "simplified" characters
are used.

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