[Foundation-l] Klassical Chinese

[Aphaia]

I remember the recent discussion about communication with a Polish
lady ... that is quite similar for me as Japanese with Classical
Chinese.

Since we at Japan consider it part of our literature heritage, we
spare hours to learn it for years compulsory. I can read somehow
Classical Chinese, even better than modern one, besides I am not
familiar much with simplified characters and my skills in writing was
not as super as Meiji era people who could freely compose poems and
prose in Classical Chinese. And I sometimes used this knowledge to
communicate with Chinese whose language is of curse modern one (by
writing down of course).

I am not familiar with the current zh-classic community, but if it is
live, we have no reason to shut it down as well as we now keep Latin
Wikipedia alive.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
> Tim Starling wrote:
>> Ting Chen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> since its creation I wondered why this happend. Why is there a classical
>>> chinese Wikipedia? This language has no native speakers and is not used
>>> by any relitious or official institution as official language.
>>>
>>
>> Because at the time it was created, we had not yet given GerardM and his
>> 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 on
>> language issues, rather than to delegate it to some standards body who
>> might not have similar interests at heart. And some people held the
>> opinion that while language study and preservation is not our core
>> mission, it'd be nice if it happened anyway, especially if there is no
>> significant cost to the organisation.
>>
>> -- Tim Starling
>>
>>
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> I totally agree with you on the issue of language conservation. Actually
> I had even thought about the possibility to use our wiki to do such
> things. I had read quite some articles for example on Scientific
> American about the problems of language conservation that the
> researchers are facing. And I think that wiki can be a technical way for
> them.
>
> But the classic chinese is another case. Classic chinese is a dead
> language, and to write about the modern Olympic games with such a
> language is simply original research. It has nothing to do with language
> conservation.
>
> Ting
>
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