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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is particularly interesting to me: where did you get this?

No additional source - because I'm only twisting James' claim against itself.

Like, he's singing the praises of phonetic systems (like Latin and Greek), and then he mentions the Committee gave up creating a phonetic system for Mandarin. Were Han characters replaced with Latin, then? Not really - we know that they're still there.

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