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by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on April 8th, 2008

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Linguistically It is interesting Chinese developed written language not using punctuation. Periods,etc are recent.The language works hard to get around this.If some more people on here had to learn this they might understand punctuation better?I think so?

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  • by Tom 47 is back in his bear COAT on April 8th, 2008

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    Well, the Chinese characters were actually separate "thoughts", or sentences in themselves, so punctuation in the sense we use it in western writing was not needed. The end and beginning of a "sentence", or thought, was understood. Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing was much the same. It can be justly argued that such writing was less able to convey the depth and clarity of western writing and that nuances of literature and poetry was difficult. It also took a great deal of memorization of characters, combinations of characters, etc. Much more study than is required with western phonetic characters, which are usually mastered by children in elementary school.

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