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A REVOLUTION IN CHINESE P.&O.BANKING CORPORATION

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[BY DR. JOHN DABROCH.]

"The writer of the following article; which appears in the Bible in the World,

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schools a phonetic script has been watch- ed with great attention by different people. That the oldest and, what was or ages, the most civilised nation on earth, should, at this late day, abandon the pictorial character in which is en- shrined its vast literature and proceed to learn the A B C, albeit a Chinese alphabet, arrests the attention of even It is the ordinary man in the street." not wonderful that many Chinese scholars oppose the introduction of the new writ ing and deny its usefulness. Themselves masters of a copious and facile language they regard the proposed change as ar, annecessary and seless concession to foreign ways of thinhis, and feel it to be an insult to the ancient sages who shaped the thought of the nation ages ago. This attitude is not unreasonable, but we must remember that those who RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK, adopt it know only their own language, and have not the same means of judging the power of a phonetic script" to repre- sent ideas as we have who have been nur tured in the use of the alphabetical sys- tem of writing.

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But the new character took its age. sound from the old and was still read} Kong. The list might be extended, or another primitive chosen, and many de- rivatives shown which retained the phone- tic value of the original, but indicated!

London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco each a new idea expressed by the same Vancouver, B.C., Hozalalu, Singapers, Pemang sound. In spite of this the Chinese Teatain, Ewat w, Mano, Canton and all Còm language did not develop into a phoneticmercial entres of China and abroad, script as did the Egyptian, but the fact

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the word tan: there are not as in the cain of the English to three words with the same sound, but the language contains at least thirty words pronouneed too and, in script, all written alike. There is an equally large number of Wang's, Li's and and H. How, it is asked, is a reader to tell, which of the thirty Tao's is meant when, in print, alt are spelled exactly alike In reply to this it may be pointed out that the phonetic script reproduces the sounds of the language as spoken. Common conversation is interlarded with homophonous, too's nad wong's, and yet the people do understand each other with apparently no more difficulty than we find in speaking English to a fellow- couneryman. It may be objected that in conversation the tone" (there are four tones in Pekingese and five in Chinese as spoken in Central China) indicates the' pirticular tas to be understood. Well, the tones can be, and are, printed as well

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The spoken languages differs from the written in this, that while the written is ter the spoken is diffuse: tan, "s knife," is written as a single word by itself, but in speech becomes double, and is spoken tan-dzi; to,

doctrine," in speech becomes too-li jao, "inverted." becomes tulian; and so on. Phonetio script reproduces the spoken language and its use is doubly to be desired, be cause it is not only easy to learn, but easy to understand. The anomaly which exists with the Chinese language as written in character, that a pupil may, and actually does, read the, whole of the four books, spending about four years in the process and at the end of that time does not understand a word of what he has read if it is understood,

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