----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomasz Wegrzanowski" taw@users.sf.net To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] An idea. What do you think about this?

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Chinese is not this perfectly logical language Leibniz was hoping

for, but it's remain one of the best candidates for deaf people, if one wish to reach universality.

Don't confuse the Chinese language with the Chinese writing system. The former is just another language - no more and no less logical than Polish, Latin or Swahili. It's only the writing system that's any special.

You're right, I should have used "Chinese writing system".

If you used Han characters for any other language, you'd be no less "logical" than with Chinese.

You may go a little far. There are many different Chinese languages (ancient written, moderne written, spoken in Sichuan, spoken in Beijing) and they all weave Chinese culture, and are waved by it. I read here that a "perfect logical/universal language" (Pl/ul) would by possible. I'm not sure. (Because of the vital link with culture) In fact, it may depends on this: do you include C++ in languages?