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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

SCHEME,

PHONETIC BASIS. -

ur

Titor ago. |

192, divně »AT 10 1831 v2 &Î

explained the

À MANCHURIA IMPASSE.

JAPANESE NOT TO WITHDRAW.

and talists to conɩpose that the Premier and Foreign:

Now the one element that has fore the task of making them his started to work this out on the

Edmund kept Chinese as a unity over such own. Str

Backhouse basis of Cantonese Becoming ac- ranges of time and space is the cheerfully wrote in The China quainted with Karlgren's work writing, partly picture-writing, Year Book, "In order to sucened, they took his publications as the partly symbolle of the idea, partly it is essential to have the classica basis of the present scheme. His scientific research FATHER FINN OUTLINES NEW phonetic, the writing that we call at one's fingers ands and upon work is strictly

Chinese characters. These are at

at this foundation a reasonably ads: Into, ancient philology. Theirs is

years a practical adaptation. prenent bound up, fnOSTUMBRY | quate structúiro can after 20 yours! with the

Shanghai, Oct. ER. ? Father Finn the persistent labour be erected." For

then

huw it must be busy different

A menange from Tokyo states Avtom of style (colloquial this relief, perhaps we of the

grateful. work of

The smoothing over the 20th century are not duly

for this Minister have Informed the Privy' Edmund is the now changes of pronunciation that Don't think that Sir

dictionary have taken place in the past 4,000 speaking of really deep know scheme. He then went on to cri-Council that the Japanese Gov-

"But A system which will be publish years, throwing a bridge of under ledge, for or Chinese literature is out that it would require official troops to the railway zone until the ticise the suggestions, pointed ernment will not withdraw its shortly. designed to make standing over the differences labyriable, un rogard ita inner- į

powerful otection from some North and simple by pronunciation between

East and West, even to a

to gunrantes the recesses, in the limits of a

tional and acceptable have been seitled by direct nego China and lifetime, owing to the enormous system an

ental researt? Japan. Chis

China

and Korea.

Chinese of: and Annam, surmounting the dif- | is,

ead through."

af: 1,000 years of using

to read

Boeming to pro- Most of us

ed

more

of

moat

ho

of

on

romanised form of phoneties to re-in extent between China | bulk of first-rate works which it Further it

Chineze place the characters, was outlined. by Father D. J. Finn, S.J.. In tecture on "Chinese Made Easy

Chinese Society of the Hongkong University last night.

Father Finn Anki

to the

curtain

Dimculties of Characters.

physically impossible to

to absorb into

ag

and although

and

Sino-Japanese the

flation-Router,

differences

Chang'a Arrival.

Nanking, Oct. 30. Chang Huch-liang arrived in a

the

T

a confusion of or even to think that the wet-sent a, national unity; it would be】 Ford plane at 12.40 10-day, and im milar sounds, with most diversai meaning in very concise literary bulb of Chincae roaches 100% perpetuating the uan of dialects. Chinese made easy? I must style, clarifying the use of those saturation

It mediately held a conference with tale unfold. The Hon. Secretary "honioplionea in conversation. side the labyrig before we get int would also represent in prier Chinng. Kal-ahek concerning In his notices very cruelly docked showing on paper the likeness or wonder then if we are interested than Mandarin-A local use more present political situation-Renter my note of interrogation. But the dissimilarity of what vocally on hearing of new schemes for than a universal one. cannot exist without it. As the is the reverse.

charactere, and thú Comparing the history of Euro-style in "Chinese Made Easy."

as is gradually the intrusion of the President has Secretary or the

languages he gave The central position of Chinese wanted a talk or how Chinese

of universal use of romanlaod is, as I have indicated, the use of suggestion that the

growth made easy, I trust that we shall

On the other hand, the charac- the special type of symbol called railways and inter-communication tional language.

This obviously must be Man- haar from them before the end

To substitute for would enforce the need for com- lers demand from the human ma- "characters." and shall go home consoled. Far

arterial a tremendous expenditure of these a medium that could be mon speech and in the working darin for that was spoken by 250 my part

art I come to suggest a ques energy. A European is amazed at learned with less expenditure of out of that common speech, the millions, as compared with the 17 tion, perhaps merely a doubt, if the psychological effort that must energy without losing all the ad-guiding principle should be the millione speaking Cantonese, This one reckons with 8 time limit, I

have been exerted to establish vantages that these symbols pre- greater benoit for the greater was on the linca followed by the don't think that 1 shall ever live ready responses in the brain for sent is the ideal of men of good number, so that it might be hoped National Government, namely the to And Chinese made easy-nor do

particularly want to do so; I find the very modest minimum of 6,000 will, patriotic Chinese and onger that the natural steps that such propagation of the universal use characters. A Chinese student foreigners. To anyone Interna- development would follow would of the national language composed in Chinesa certain cross dimeul-char

to the tionally minded, the use of what be, first of all, the use of dialects of Mandarin which seemed to be ties that are more fascinating than stimulus of a character; a com-

answers automatically

wo call the Latin alphabet sug-romanised in newspapers to re- the final solution that might lead cross-word puzzles, and of their bination of stroken seen by the eye rests itself. It is not in its origin pince the present use of literary to the making onsy of Chloess own very nature transport on calls for one sound or perhaps a Roman, though conveniently the anciently-minded 10 remote

choice of sounds, accompanied by transcription of certain Asiatic

1 A 18 generations and other ways. My the understanding of one or more languages by

called only regret is that I have so little

It really origina- time and so little talent for the meanings. It means the installa- "romanisation."

tion of an automatic telephone ted in the East of the Mediter "Chinese Made Easy" really change in which over 6,000 sub-ranean, about 8.000 years ago.

munt ring and scribers can

here about the Phoenician be somewh and it has proved it, means some new devices or some answered without mistake; and country new circumstances at which one yet without enjoying such

pre- value on

legions of languages, Frowing older and balder with the

balks, But resolutely Jaya

range of European pulation of our 20 alphabet-sub-and the whole rang of young generation

Chinese

the usual languages. A few years ago. genuinely interested

in their scribers affords in

Turkey substituted it drastically European systems. country's progress by way of unity

This installation demands the by law for the Arabic script; just and wide-spread education, and

the League recently

of Nations' valuable Commitee as expenditure of much of Europeans

Intellectual Co- young generation evid to nequire an important lan-schooling-time while the results Kunge will

because of the fallibility of the operation has set itself the task welcome the new †

of I propagating its use still wider. Ma-ion of "Chinese Without Teare human material cannot be always Many attempts have been made to For All" when it is finally thrown guaranteed to be equally effective.

domesticate Romanisation in open to traffic. Having disowned The old system of drilling in the Chinn and the National Govern- the Secretary and his heroic tank, sounds of the characters without

teaching the underlying senesc

ment la decidedly sympathetic. I must explain my own position.

My business in to

to put be found

ore you come among you as a learner, seems to have been

consideration because

desired to for your thoughtfal it was Mary as one who can only Ray A.A.A.

of la brand new scheme with remark- in this speech. should really #ecure so many nusociations

while the able features embodying visibly sit at the feet of any Chinese sound and symbol

memory puwers were still fresh the idea of national unity, but i student hore to learn the and most easity retentive. In so think you will find in it rather, a

pursuit.

cx-

liminary help as the gradual mani. notably on Hebrew, Greek, Latin

neces-

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Therefore Chinese. however I can tell you better than far it was quite rational. Its de stimulus to thought, rather than

of Sinology. you enn gucas how far from easy fect was that it envisaged as the an "Open Sesame" to the Elysium it in What

only and ultimate alm there is in urgency

supreme the note of nterrogation When power to be. finally attained over

a torminus

Scheme Outlined. at

LT. COLONEL L.G. BIRD, D.S.0, and OFFICERS (F THE H.K.V.D.C. shall it be made

is it a vast vocabulary: a How enny?

to ar- The scheme is just in process to be made easy? I cannot answhich only for cou

leisure- wer these questions but I can tell rive because of it. To use the Synodal Commission" (Pek

of publication in the "Digest of you something about them. I am and indeed of

****Chinese properly as a literary ine). It claims that it attains the at the foot of a huge mountain medium demanded an accomplish following precious results

while Himalaya of dithculty and can! meaaure the effect mitch better

tter ment that in other language is re-using the ordinary A.E.C. than you who range over the high garded as possible only to a seleci plateaux or even gaily trip on the few.

I

summit tops, incapable of realis- Without the characters, how- ing all the diftulties that fe be-ever. it would seem tween us.

Some Well-known Facts.

#

(1) It presents a writing that may be read aloud in any dialect with which the read- er is familiar: (this is the mint of the characters).

✔ that the literary style is impossible (be- unintelligible) caune well-nigh and then the exactin" demands an learners would be reduced to n hum-drum practical level. With

it would

11

ent the use of chat written in for #cem that a language for Apelling system of romanisation

brank

(2) Words are so differentiated as to be distinguishable from one another in writing (1.o. the difculty of writing homophonea in romanian- tion has been met).

(8) The system preserves

philological value compar able with the characters even from a literary stand- point.

A

In order to set before you for your meditation and reflexton very new, very ingenious, sur- prisingly scientific system

let solving the difficulties

us first rehearse some well-known facts

up into far removed and their corollaries. Chinese is departments of, say, Proto-Chin- Ancient spoken of as one language, evenesc, Archaic Chinese, though its use can be traced on

Chinese, Old, Middle, Modern then the Modern actually existing original docu-Chinese-and ments for something over

Chinese must split up 3,000

into

its dif- years, and although we know that ferent varieties, Mandarin, Can-

In other words, this system, between 300 and 400 million people toneee, hakka and the rest, just speak it. Obviously great changes as in Europe we have Germanic claims to combine the advantages manof alphabetic writing (economy in German. (English, must have taken places in that languages

printing, modernity) long period of time, and wide dif- Dutch, Swedish) and in these our learning,

occur Universities study the ferences of dialect muat

different with the chief advantages of the characters.(.c. Nation wide unity, over the wide area occupied by periods, Old, Middle, Modern these millions. Scholars say that pre-existant but now forgotten distinction of like sounds as con- veying different meanings, pre- the language of the Archaie tongues. If the characters are

servation of linguistic history). period (before the Christian era) kept ne indispensable, then

Now this is an astonishing differed as widely from Ancient highest achievements of the lan-

nchfevement when compared with Chinese (about 700 A.D.) as this guage must be the exclusive en-

which of systems,

песев latter does from modern Man-joyment of a small lefsured cul. existing

up with one are bound

dialect of darla--and that is wide indeed.tured class, a very oligarchy Even with these vast extents of literature, and the very meanest ns they aim at reproducing phone- time and space, we have not yet familiarity with the written word tically one system of sounds.

How is this end achieved? measured completely the content is to be acquired at the cost of

or

the

alty.

of Chinese; there are extant considerable toll. This is not Briefly, it is by basing the writing literary documents that claim to helpful to the formation of a read-on phonetic values that scientific. have been first set down in writing democracy,

ing 4,000 years ago and there is a wider uren that has borrowed much from the Chinese language

Knowledge of Classics.

research has established for the characters as pronounced about the sixth century A.D. That is in

If a European stands amazed at the period which the greatest of and retained distinctive Chinese the perfection and complication of modern sinalogues Bernhard Karl- reactions, heren has called Ancient Chinese. stands fearful and despaired be The authors Lamasse and Jasmin

features with cortain modifica. your linguistic Hons.

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