[SOCKBUNNY]

traditional.. i seriously think it was a stupid move inventing simplified... because they only "simplified" some chars but not all.. !!! plus it looks like crapp when you're writing traditional chinese caligraphy.. because chinese characters have history, they were derived from the objects around them when the writing system was created.. now it just looks like crapp(simplified).. my opinion ofcourse !

no traditional shouldn't take more time to learn.. they're both practically the same.. just one has more strokes but you're still learning the same word
i think only china uses simplified.. HK, Taiwan and Macau all use traditional i believe

I thought traditional takes more work to learn since there are more characters and that by changing to simplified it promoted literacy to those who had trouble learning the traditional characters =/

not to offend anyone who uses simplified, but I too agree that it looks like crap. A lot of characters look like they're missing something in simplified forms.

Yea, I know pretty much China is the only one who uses simplified, but I'm talking about overseas. I know a lot of places and electronic stuff offer both trad and simp, but is there a more common one? Like in overseas chinese schools or communities.

[chriquen]

i also learned traditional first, and have to convert in my head. i also think that traditional characters are very pretty and fun to write, something that's get lost in the conversion to simplified.

[conscience]

hmm.. anyone here needs personal chinese-english translator? perhaps i can teach you.. i have been learning it since i was.. born? so if you need me to translate any chinese articles feel free to pm me.. since i'm bored most of the time anyway(:

[hibarney!]

can anyone pls type zhuin and the translation of the last word for me (not the 'ae', the character)..
你门很....

^__^

[ANJEE<3]

I thought traditional takes more work to learn since there are more characters and that by changing to simplified it promoted literacy to those who had trouble learning the traditional characters =/

not to offend anyone who uses simplified, but I too agree that it looks like crap. A lot of characters look like they're missing something in simplified forms.

Yea, I know pretty much China is the only one who uses simplified, but I'm talking about overseas. I know a lot of places and electronic stuff offer both trad and simp, but is there a more common one? Like in overseas chinese schools or communities.

no why would traditional have more characters since it's still chinese.. there are just as much simplified characters there are traditional.. just that only some were "simplified"... which was incredibly stupid because as i have found after learning both (traditional for 10 years and simplified for 3)... they "simplified" all the easy words and kept the hard words the same.. as in it's writen the same way in trad and simp... and the main reason as you stated was to help many into being able to read and write easier as there were lesser strokes and what not.. but that just defied the point when they still kept the words with more strokes the same..

or you can view it as they changed all the common words and kept the less used ones.. but since you're going to be learning both anyway technically.. why not just learn traditional chinese instead !! it's more "traditional" and you're basically still learning the same thing otherwise how are you going to read sentences properly?? (sorry if i'm beginning to sound angry.. i'm not trying to be biased but i just found learning simplified completely useless and a waste of time when you can learn traditional because it's still "traditional chinese" and you're still getting the same benifits and more out of it)


overseas?? i still think it's traditional.. i live in vancouver and out of the minorities.. chinese is the highest.. and i have still yet to encounter a chinese school teaching simplified rather than traditional

[tengteng]

can anyone pls type zhuin and the translation of the last word for me (not the 'ae', the character)..
你门很....

^__^

jian4
It can mean cheap/bad.
I thin it means bad(evil in this case).

[Justalilodreamer]

Sorry i didn't know how to type it up so i wrote it on paint HAHA XD i might've did a few strokes wrong since i dont really know my chinese

In canton it should be pronouced as Fan something(should it be Cheung?) Tuen

can someone type this in chinese for me and also the pinyin in both mandarin and canton ? ><

[tru__minute]

I believe they're changing simplified to the 'official' way soon.

[butterflysister]

Sorry i didn't know how to type it up so i wrote it on paint HAHA XD i might've did a few strokes wrong since i dont really know my chinese

In canton it should be pronouced as Fan something(should it be Cheung?) Tuen

can someone type this in chinese for me and also the pinyin in both mandarin and canton ? ><

范頌端
mandarin i think this is how u pronounce is: fan4 song4 duan1

for Canto... not so sure how the pinyin stuff even though i know how to say it ~_~
i suck at those chinglish.. sorry

^__^ btw...your writing is pretty nice... at least better than i do XP

[Diia]

Blah nvmmmmm
Thanks anyways

[hibarney!]

jian4
It can mean cheap/bad.
I thin it means bad(evil in this case).

Thanks a bunch ^___^

[Justalilodreamer]

范頌端
mandarin i think this is how u pronounce is: fan4 song4 duan1

for Canto... not so sure how the pinyin stuff even though i know how to say it ~_~
i suck at those chinglish.. sorry

^__^ btw...your writing is pretty nice... at least better than i do XP

oh thanks!!

[heartdrops]

范頌端 in Cantonese would be Fan Jung Duen.

[Silent Tears]

范頌端 in Cantonese would be Fan Jung Duen.

Urm...
Or maybe it's like FAN3 CUNG3 DUEN1...

[lisaloveu]

Wo lai dao ji mo bian jie 　ai yi shi qie 　　xin zai tang zhe xie....

我來到寂寞邊界　dunno the middle bit　　　心在淌着血
I have come to the (i am standing on the) edge of loneliness ... my heart is bleeding

i think u got it wrong the middle bit..or mayb im just dumb >w<: lol.. it wud make more sense if it was 'ai shi yi qie' = love is everything

[cRoSsTaGe]

lol sorry i need help with translation for another random line that probably doesnt make any sense =]

Wo lai dao ji mo bian jie ai yi shi qie xin zai tang zhe xie....

thank you in advance

我來到寂寞邊界 愛已失竊 心在淌著血

I think you are referring to this song lyrics.

我來到寂寞邊界 I come to the edge of loneliness
愛已失竊 Love has been robbed of
心在淌著血My heart is lying in blood (or bleeding)

[kawaii_keroring]

i want to write

soo Ying
Tia Hao

in traditional chinese
i don't know how to write it ...
can someone help me PLEAAASE

[lisaloveu]

^ do u know wht it means..coz its not really makin sense and there are lot of possiblities..

我來到寂寞邊界 愛已失竊 心在淌著血

I think you are referring to this song lyrics.

我來到寂寞邊界 I come to the edge of loneliness
愛已失竊 Love has been robbed of
心在淌著血My heart is lying in blood (or bleeding

oh wow.. never knew they were lyrics, no wonder i didn't kno wt da middle bit was.. >w<;; wt song is this?

[tengteng]

^ 张栋梁的寂寞边界。

[EJ007]

i want to write

soo Ying
Tia Hao

in traditional chinese
i don't know how to write it ...
can someone help me PLEAAASE

can't understand the word, could you provide us with an english definition instead?