CharQues

Characters: Questions to Consider media type="file" key="character questions.mp3"

Choose four of the following questions. Think about them, then write up a short paragraph for each and email it to the instructor. You do not need to do any research to find the answers; these are questions for you to think about.

Why did Chinese stick with characters while other languages switched to alphabets?

Are characters the same as cuneiform?

What is the effect of writing characters with the wrong stroke order?

Given the widespread use of computers, do we even need to write characters by hand?

How did a Chinese typewriter work? Was there even such a thing?

Why did Korea and Vietnam and Japan borrow Chinese characters for their writing systems?

Does learning characters as opposed to an alphabet activate a different part of the brain?

Why haven't Hong Kong and Taiwan adopted simplified characters?

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