Personally I do not think Classical Chinese is a dead language. Here in Taiwan I studied Classical Chinese when I'm in school (junior / senior high). In our higher education, Classical Chinese is an optional subject as common sense course. And we still have lots of poem writers here using the language.
As Aphaia previously stated, Japanese people are also using the Classical Chinese in their daily lives, maybe more than Chinese people.
If you think the language is dead, it's your own opinion. It's still alive somewhere in the world. But, yap, it might be my own opinion, too. ;)
Regards, Ted / H.T. User:Htchien
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ting Chen Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:12 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese
Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote:
Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Because at the time it was created, we had not yet given [...] team of rules lawyers the power to decide all wiki creation issues.
There
was a sentiment that we as a community should make our own decisions
Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sounds like a reasonable compromise. Have the Board approve it and
No community decision? :)
That's the reason why I put the question here.
Ting
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