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Old 04-24-2006, 12:57 PM   #14
sordid
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Uryoces
Oriental languages are idogrammatic. Each character means something, as opposed to the characters simply referring to a sound.
That's true for Chinese and a certain Japanese writing, Kanji.
It's wrong for Thai, Korean, Hiragana Japanese, Katakana Japanese... - actually it's wrong for ANY language but Kanji and Chinese.
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