When will traditional chinese characters disappear?

[GoodSarmatian]

Unfortunately it's not that clear. It doesn't help you to guess the meaning of a character (except in rare cases in context), but it makes many characters very easy to remember once you learn them.

 

[civ_king]

sorry I'm merely a 学生

 

[exhile]

Calligraphers will keep tradition up. Just like they have been keeping such ancient calligraphic styles like zhuanshu or lishu alive until these days. But then again, only calligraphers or scholars of chinese will actually use them.

So you agree with me that traditional characters will not disappear then. I don't see Hong Kong or Taiwan switching to simplified any time soon.

 

[plarq]

To write anything in Chinese, you only need to learn half a dozen strokes.

You need about a hundred components, some of them appear often, like letters e,s in English; some appears rarely, like x.

 

[gangleri2001]

So you agree with me that traditional characters will not disappear then. I don't see Hong Kong or Taiwan switching to simplified any time soon.

What about 2046?

 

[amadeus]

When Microsoft's IME stops supporting them.

 

[exhile]

What about 2046?

2046 doesn't affect Taiwan.

 

[Murky]

Bah, everyone knows that we should be speaking Latin!

 

[Arwon]

I don't see why they haven't switched to some alphabet-based system already. From what I gather, what they have now is terribly cumbersome.

A skilled Chinese typist writing with simplified characters can actually get a substantially higher words-per-minute speed than someone writing in English. It's just quite a different process to alphabetic writing, that doesn't necessarily make it less efficient.

 

[plarq]

If a typist uses components inputing method (Wubi, not Ubuntu Installer on Windows) , he/she will gain a 100 character per minute, with minimal help of word group input (a.k.a. type several characters in one go).

If using Pinyin, by heavily relied on group input, the speed would be quite high if the message is full of words instead of unrelated characters.

If we type in a language using Latin alphabet, we need auto-complete to compete.

 

[gangleri2001]

Not to mention the less amounts of paper necessary to write the same.

 

[civ_king]

I want to get good enough at Chinese to use Wubi

 

[eoc]

Surely, Traditional Chinese will not disppear in 2035, maybe in 20035^_^
Simple Chinese is offical writting form, while Traditional Chinese is still popular among folks. At mainland, Those who born in 90s seem much more like Traditional Chinese than those in 80s(me).

To civ_king, if you don't want to be a typist, then better not learn WuBi, it can't help you much. On the contrary, it leads you misunderstanding how to write Chinese in a normal way. I use pinyin.

 

[gangleri2001]

Surely, Traditional Chinese will not disppear in 2035, maybe in 20035^_^

Then you tell me when will the current situation of "one language, two writing systems" will end.

Simple Chinese is offical writting form, while Traditional Chinese is still popular among folks. At mainland, Those who born in 90s seem much more like Traditional Chinese than those in 80s(me).

Sure they think that they are cute and studd, but do they use traditionals in their daily life? That's the point.

To civ_king, if you don't want to be a typist, then better not learn WuBi, it can't help you much. On the contrary, it leads you misunderstanding how to write Chinese in a normal way. I use pinyin.

Well, sometimes for a westerner Wubi makes sense since we cannot associate all characters with their sound.

 

[eoc]

to #54
"one language, two writing systems",huh? How do you define the 2 writting system? Just because of, for an example, "骑" doesn't look like "騎"？
let me show you a picture:

 

[gangleri2001]

No, simplify means make things simple. Such as in 几, 个, 听, 后 and many others, which were simplified with other simplification procedures. So the character 爱 was made simpler by replacing the element 心.

Traditional and simplified characters are two different writing systems just because they have two different sets of characters. Sure they share lots of them, but when the set differs then we talk about different writing systems.

 

[eoc]

No, simplify means make things simple. Such as in ¼¸, ¸ö, Ìý, ºó and many others, which were simplified with other simplification procedures. So the character °® was made simpler by replacing the element ÐÄ.

Traditional and simplified characters are two different writing systems just because they have two different sets of characters. Sure they share lots of them, but when the set differs then we talk about different writing systems.

My lord of linguist, please teach me Chinese after your Chinese are better than mine.
By the way, do you know Chinese language?

 

[eoc]

gangleri2001, I will say sorry to you if you feel I was laughing at you. But I really don't mean it, it is my poor English.
I just want to say, when you really know Chinese language you have to get infused in Chinese culture, then you won't tell those bul(l)sh(i)ts.

 

[aronnax]

I don't suppose the Traditional Chinese script will ever fall out of use for centuries to come. While it is clearly easier to learn Simplified Chinese and the majority of Chinese speakers now use the Simplified script, Traditional Chinese will continue to thrive in every day usage, and not for just literary means.

I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that Traditional Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan are going to die out anytime soon. The thing is, for Hong Kongers and Taiwanese, the system works. If it is not broken, don't fix it I suppose.

@Winner - You have absolutely no idea what the Chinese writing script is like... Re-evaluate your image of Latin-Alphabert against Chinese Scripts

 

[eoc]

I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that Traditional Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan are going to die out anytime soon. The thing is, for Hong Kongers and Taiwanese, the system works. If it is not broken, don't fix it I suppose.

Not only in Hongkong and TaiWan, even in the mainland, you can see traditional Chinese on the buildings here and there.