Walter's Famous German Language Essentials Guide

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 10 10:36:48 PDT 2016


On 05/05/2016 10:52 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> The older, more complex system preserves some of the arguably
> flagrant shenanigans by ancient Chinese scribes who went overboard with
> the whole derivation from radicals idea and invented some of the most
> ridiculously complex characters that nobody uses. This was perceived to
> be superior because, well, it was more "literary" (whatever that
> means!),

Sounds like "literary" means "enterprisey".



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