monto Posted March 27, 2008 at 02:04 AM Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 at 02:04 AM Should the words "hate" or "ugly" be used when talking about a standard language script? In reasoning, we shouldn't. But emotionally, we do or did. Traditionally, educated people are supposed to have good hand writing in China, as we have a term : 字如其人（Like the person, like the writing) . We spend some time on practice of hand writing just to improve the appearence (to make them look nicer). But there are always some structure of the characters that seem to be difficult to write nicely to some people. After spending much more time on the characters than on others with little improvement, you begin to "hate" them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gougou Posted March 28, 2008 at 01:09 AM Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 at 01:09 AM Split the discussion about stories behind characters (especially those that didn't undergo simplification) to this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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