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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1720)	5/22/2000 1:16:00 AM
From: brian h	Respond to of 12247

Maurice, Don't Chinese also write from back to front, like the Japanese, meaning from the back of the book to the front? I suppose they would call the back of the book the front, but you know what I mean. You just reminded me this great difference out there. Yes, Chinese are like Japanese (Or should be Japanese are like Chinese) doing reading and writing from right to left traditionally. Therefore, page counting is from right to left also. No wonder you say "write from back to front" - meaning from left to right in English writing format. However the modern Chinese writing (I am sure Japanese and Korean writing are alike) already adopts English writing format. In fact, I like it to write from left to right. I remembered those days I learned how to write Chinese calligraphy. It became really messy to my right hand when I tried to write the next one from right to left and the previous one's ink did not dry out yet. There is no problem for Chinese to adopt it this way due to Chinese words flexibility except one has to know what the writer original intention is to write from right to left, from left to write, from top to bottom, from bottom up or even circularly. That may confuse readers totally. Taiwan (Republic of China) and China (People of Republic of China)can not even agree on the same term of being "One China" though both side speak the same language and write the same way. We may ask too much between China and US relationship to improve very much except trading relationship. Let us keep our figures crossed that China approves to use Q' CDMA soon. Best, Brian H.