Found on proggit: Krug, a new experimental programming language, compiler written in D

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On Monday, 30 April 2018 at 16:20:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> As a native Chinese speaker, I find contortions of this kind 
> mildly amusing but mostly ridiculous, because this is 
> absolutely NOT how the language works.  It is carrying an 
> ancient scribal ivory-tower ideal of one syllable per word to 
> ludicrous extremes, an ideal that's mostly unattained, because 
> most so-called monosyllabic "words" in the language are in fact 
> multi-consonantal clusters retroactively analysed as 
> monosyllables. Isolated syllables taken out of their context 
> have no real meaning of their own (except perhaps in writing, 
> which again is an invention of the scribes that doesn't fully 
> reflect the spoken reality [*]). Actually pronouncing the 
> atrocity above might as well be speaking reverse-encrypted 
> Klingon as far as comprehensibility by a native speaker is 
> concerned.

Oh yes, I'm well aware that there's a lot of semantic contortion 
required here, and that as spoken, this sounds like complete 
gibberish. I don't know where the monosyllable meme came from, 
either; it's readily apparently from learning even basic 
vocabulary. 今天, 马上, 故事, hell, 中国 is a compound word.