Wanted: Ten million Chinese students to “civilize” the Internet (pro-regime Internet shills)

WaPo ^ | April 10, 2015 | Xu Yangjingjing and Simon Denyer

[P.O.E.]

From what little I know about spoken Chinese, it relies a lot on inflection, so that adds a layer of phonetic-spelling complexity.

[Jack Hammer]

And to think, I only wish for ten Chinese women to civilize me....

[kearnyirish2]

“From what little I know about spoken Chinese, it relies a lot on inflection, so that adds a layer of phonetic-spelling complexity.”

Interesting; I didn’t know that. Thanks! From what I understand historically, most Chinese were functionally illiterate because it wasn’t practical for them to know so many characters. For example, the average person might know 300 of them, while the wizened old scribe might know 3,000.