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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Reading Chinese
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 12:13:50 EDT
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> 
> 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.

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