Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!mordor!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Reading Chinese Message-ID: <330@utastro.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 12:13:50 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.330 Posted: Wed Jul 10 12:13:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 12:51:12 EDT References: <255@jenny.UUCP> <329@utastro.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 17 > > One of the reasons that more recent written Chinese is sometimes hard to > understand when it is read is because the influence of Classical Chinese > on the written language is still very strong. People love to show off I meant to say, "when it is read *aloud*". Sorry. -- "Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal Bill Jefferys 8-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)