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ENGLISH IN CHINESE CHARACTERS.

WHY ROMAN LETTERS SHOULD BE ABANDONED.

JAPANESE LINGUIST GIVES FRIENDLY ADVICE TO ENGLAND.

Roman letters should be abau- doned by the nations now using them in written communications, and Chinese ideography substituted in their place, in the opinion of a linguist who has entered a debate going on in Tokyo regarding the advisability of changing Japan's system of writing.

Japan for centuries has depended largely upon Chinese ideographs for writing Modernists, however, have started an agitation to abandon the ancient system and substitute for "it" Romaji," a system of express ing Japnene words phonetically with the letters of the Roman alphabet.

[United Press Special.]

in her art." She may gain the whole world by following in the her ar as founded on her ideo- footsteps of the West, but to lose graphs, might mean to lose her soul. Were we of the West to abandon

our craze for efficiency and seek to find more satisfying accomplish menta we might find them through The study of Chiness caligraphy..

Concise and Precise, In the matter of conciseness and

the precision,

however foreign or recondite, but what can be rendered by a quick combination of ideographs.

Memory Training.

the difficulty of learning the writing A point overlooked by critics of of Japanese is that this very dif feulty of learning provides an ex- cellent training for the memory- All Orientals can memorize a pas- sage from a book or a musical score, and can learn from a print- Japanese writtened page much faster than can language has few equals. These Occidentals. And as far as dif. syabolic ideographs when combined ficulty of learning is concerned, the C. the written page have by their fact that Japan boasts a lower very nature a directness and force rate of illiteracy than practically that no other system of writing any other country proves the dif

an approach. Compare a printed culty to be largely imagined, and column of English with its Japanese that by well-meaning foreigners translation. The Japanese version who find it inconvenient to adjust will be from two-thirds to one-half themselves to a strange mode of shorter than the English, Let me written communication. Lost the state at once that this is, not true point arise that in the Oriont edu- of the spoken language. but I haveention tends to memoriting by no intention of defending the enuse rote, I would basten to reply that of spoken Japanese What faults it any such tendency can easily be may have are not shared by the corrected by insistence on a pro- written language, from which itperly balanced educational diet. differs considerably The Chinese

Facility in Learning. ideographs are myelously adapt Wherevered for use in scientific language,

The linguist who would make Chinese Ideographs a universal written language advances these

reasons

It is true that ideographs are

Ideas in Pictures. Chinese ideographs, because of their symbolie qualities, are the most expressive devices for written communication over invented by men. This is difficult of explan tion to one who has not studied the "Japanese language, and I câu buat

explain by example. seen throughout the world, the pie- and no fitter medium of scientific less easily learned than the. ture of dag sitting in a listening communication could be devised.alphabet. But i contend that the attitude before a funnel, calis in Indeed the only fault of ideographs, learning of the characters for an mediately to mind a famous sound if fault it can be called, is that Oriental, accustomed as he is to reproducing machine. Let us con by their preciseness and exactitude observing them from his earliest coive of the universal adoption of they tend to be cold meticulous, ears, is very little if any more dif- this picture to represent on the but this tendency is modified by spelling. I constantly hear the ficult than the learning of English printed page the word "phononssociations, istoric and literary. graph." Similarly we may use the

statement that Japanese themselves picture of n mountain surrounded

do not know their own language. and that they forget the composi

This tion of their characters. would be a serious charge against the ideographs if it were not equally Applicable to English spelling. For example, ask some educated foreign friend to spell the following common English words: definite; separate, explanatory,

Adaptability.

automobile

manœuvre,

ACTORS.

Few English speaking persons can write a page without misspelling a word.

by stars, which is the trade-mark Had the English language heen of a famous inoving picture com- placed in the critical circumstances pany, to represent the word that confronted Japanese at the "moving-picture.” Continue this time of the Meiji restoration, with process until all words are repre- the immediate necessity for a tre- sented by symbols, which in them.mendous variety of new words, it would have had either to have selves picture the idea to be ex pressed, and you" have in effect the adopted and assimilated foreign Chinese-Japanese system of ideo- words, or to have ransacked Latin graphs. Had I time and space I and Greek for clumsy and abstruse could explain, in detail how by far equivalents. "Hors d'oeuvres " and the majority of characters have for "fiancee" and examples of the the Oriental reader a pictorial first method, as applied to English, "Wake Up, England!" quality. So true is this that the and

tele- and

"Lastly, I would demonstrate the experienced render enn often iden.. photo are examples of the latter.universality of the Chinese ideo- tify the meaning of

To the man in the street such words graphs. Many people who would strange character merely by observing ita have no apparent meaning when laugh at the idea of adapting Chi- component parts. I may also state,

first adopted, and are usually soon nese characters to English have not at the risk of confusing my reader, contracted to such senseless words stopped to realise that these ideo- that the sound or reading of a

as "auto" and "phone."

graphs are the medium of written character may often if not usually

communication among many more be determined in the same way,

peoples on this earth than are Roman letters. Nor do they realize that the various languages employ- ing these ideographs differ between themselves quite as much as do Japanese and English.

What was done in the 4th and 5th centuries, when in a groping and haphazard manner Japan adopted Chinese English-speaking peoples in an in- characters, can be done by the telligent and orderly way, so as to eliminate all of the certain diend. vantages that have resulted in the case of Japanese."

Consider now the new Japanese word for automobile, jidosha, Artistic Superiority,

composed of three characters, ji self, do motion, sha vehicle. All will agree that Chinese char- The three ancient characters com. acters are artistically superior to bine to form a new word which is any other form of writing. The at once terse and self-explanatory. study of enligraphy is in itself a Thus the fourth point which I wish training in the appreciation of art to make, is that the Chinese ideo and beauty, and in sensitiveness to graphs are infinitely adaptable. form and proportion. In drawing When their exists a need for a new and painting a Japanese schoolgirl ward, concrete or abstract, there can put to shame the average adult is immediately made a new com- foreigner. Louis Leloux in his bination of the ideographs, which work on the Art of Japan de-even to the eye of the uninitiated einres that The soul of Japan is suggests the meaning. No idea.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day.

(January 30-)

Chiness New Year. Football:--Southern China . Eastern China.

Golf: China New Year Meeting, Fanling.

Friday, (January 31.)

Christian Fellowship, Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30

Golf: Kowloon Golf Club Happy Valley.

Foothill-Enatern

Navy.

11.

United

Cricket: H.K.C.C. Services.

Fealing Hunt and Race Club: Hounds meet, Fanling Station, 3

p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Hollywood Revue,"

World Theatre: "Spité Mar- riage" and "Secrets of the Studio" (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre: "Single Standard" and Torcats Roosters.”

Majestic Theatre: "Fools for Luck."

Special Tea Dancea: Hong Kong Repulse Bay Hotels, 4.30 p.m., and Peninauls Hotel, 8 pm.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 9.30 pm.

European Mails-Inwärd: Europe vid Suez (Macedonia).

m.

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China

V.

v. United

Cricket: H.K.C.C. Servicep

# Queen's Theatre: Revue,"

Hollywood

World Thentre: "Spite Mar- ringe" and "Secrets of the Studio" (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre: "Single Standard" and "Torenta Roosters."

Majestic Theatre: "Fools for Lack,"

sula Hotel, 5 p.m.

Tea Dantes: H.K. Hotel, Perin

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel „ánd Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.,

European Mails:-Outward: 10.20 .m. Europe vid Marseilles, (Mantua),

Saturday. (February J.). Departure of H.E. the Governor, Football: All Chinese v. Rest of Colony

Golf: Interport Matches, Fan ling.

Cricket:-Division I.: Craigen- gower t. Kowloon (L), Indian R.C. H.K.C.C.. University (L), R.A. Civil Service (L). Division II.:

S.C. «. Indian RC. (F).

Fanling Hunt and Race Club Hounds meet Hung Ling. 4 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Hollywood Revue."

World Theatre: "Glorious Betsy" and." Secrets of the Studio."

Star Theatre: "Single Standard" and Torcats Roosters."

Majestic Theatre: Fools for Luck."

Ten Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong, Feninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m

Sunday. (February 2.). Fourth Sunday After Epiphany. Golf: Interport Matches, Fan-

Kwanti Steeplechase. Queen's Theatre: Mr. Cheyney."

ling.

The Last of

World Theatre: "Iron Mask." Star Theatre: "Painted Post" and "Torcats Robsters,"

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