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Why is it that Chinese is considered a cultured,	by hadji	2008-10-01 14:12:05
I don't know if it is so much of a double standard	by Classic_Jon	2008-10-01 14:26:02
as to it being "slang." Slang of any language is met with derision. Think aobut how much fun people made of "ebonics" which basically was something made up from street dialect slang and lazy talking. I have to admit that the Southern "y'all" is a lazy way of saying "all of you" but it has become accepted in general use over the years... just like OMG is becoming accepted in many ways. That being said (while I am not a chinese or Japanese language expert at all!) I believe People think it is efficient use of a pictogram to show a complete thought...but also there are hundreds of "common" pictograms that could have several varied meanings whereas Romanistic letters to make up words are much less easy to mis-use or mis-interperate. I was watching a travel show one day where they took the Hostess to a caligraphy artist and when she asked him how many pictograms there were he said that there were over 300 commonly used ones and about 500 others that are not commonly used. I bring this up since people also like to be simplistic and lazy!! :) The fewer things they have to remember and enter in...the better... Knowing that flipping the tail of a stroke up can mean one thing and down another in a pictogram is hard to remember even for the experts from what I understand.
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