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  • Rated by jamienae on Nov 02, 6:41am

    Oh, I love stuff like this. I don't think I have the patience and memory anymore to study Chinese of any variety and become proficient, but I would love to study it for this reason. The facility of symbology is so intriguing!

  • Rated by Drewhm on Nov 01, 6:34pm

    Cool idea, with a lot of interesting linguistic terms explained, but the language he's turning out isn't very /good/, I would say. But hey, maybe that's how all languages started out

  • Reviewed by gak001 on Feb 06 2009, 5:00pm

    If Chinese WERE Written Like English. Very interesting, but the subjunctive in English is not dead!

  • Rated by Jesterwocky on Jan 22 2009, 11:33pm

    That was a pretty great illustration of the basis for the Chinese writing system, I thought. Nice!

  • Rated by wordsleuth on Jan 17 2009, 9:32pm

    This is a fairly accurate characterization of how Chinese characters work. Also a very interesting thought experiment. Only a handful of Chinese characters are 'pictographs' in the strictest sense - i.e. pictures of physical things or entities. The vast majority of characters have phonetic/semantic components that make reading and understanding the language about as easy as it is for educated natives of any other tongue.

  • Rated by crminks on Jan 08 2009, 7:25pm

    ...brilliant, ...maybe.

  • Reviewed by Joxcie on Dec 31 2008, 12:24pm

    it might... be interesting

  • Rated by HelenGr on May 19 2008, 12:16pm

    Smart explanation of writing principles of hieroglyphic. And what about the idea of replacing alphabet with pictographs - trust me, I've learned Chinese and I can say alphabetical writing is much more easier that hieroglyphic.

  • Rated by Espsycho on Apr 13 2008, 9:03am

    I seriously want to learn how to write "Yingzi" now.

  • Rated by exunomnes on Apr 07 2008, 8:28pm

    Here is a fun way to learn enough about how to write Chinese to sound intelligent at a pretentious party without actually learning anything.