Re: Why Chinese is so damn hard

* Don Phillipson wrote:

For further factual detail about Chinese (interchangeable
parts of speech, lack of prepositions etc.) see Frederick
Bodmer's The Loom of Language (1944) -- old-fashioned
because encyclopedic and a bit disorganized, but
nevertheless fact-drenched.)

But opinionated in a way that is unbearable today. Doesn't it classify
Chinese script as a "language diseases" (together with, I'm sure about
that one, declension of numerals in Russian)?

I've only read the German translation 25 years ago, so excuse me if I'm
a bit off.
--
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much
different from what you had in mind. - Joseph Weizenbaum
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