This is particularly interesting to me: where did you get this?
No additional source - because I’m only twisting James’ claim against itself.
Like, he’s singing the praises of phonetic systems (like Latin and Greek), and then he mentions the Committee gave up creating a phonetic system for Mandarin. Were Han characters replaced with Latin, then? Not really - we know that they’re still there.
This is particularly interesting to me: where did you get this?
Thanks for the thorough comment.
No additional source - because I’m only twisting James’ claim against itself.
Like, he’s singing the praises of phonetic systems (like Latin and Greek), and then he mentions the Committee gave up creating a phonetic system for Mandarin. Were Han characters replaced with Latin, then? Not really - we know that they’re still there.