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Reading has always been the love of my life and one of my greatest passions. Throughout the toughest times of my life, reading was always there for me and was as my escape from the real world. When I am feeling down I immerse myself in stories and characters that help me distract myself from the troubles around me. One specific book that had a great impact on my life was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone not only introduced me to the wonderful world of Harry Potter, (one of my biggest loves to this day) but it helped me through one of the darkest points of my life. During my teenage years, I battled many personal issues (I’d rather not get into them) and sticking my nose into Harry Potter books helped me to feel safe and happy during my darkest times. I took comfort in the characters and the story in a way in which I had never felt before. I will always be thankful for the magic that Harry Potter brought into my life!
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So, I too have had this debate many times, and I am heartened every time someone steps up in support of character based writing like Hanzi. My honest attitude toward this is "I want to believe". I want to believe that there is equal merit to Hanzi as letter-based phonetic writing like romanized, cyrillic, etc. But all the evidence seems to point to the contrary.
Some rebuttals to your points:
>I imagine there's also been an increase in the number of English speakers who have problems remembering the spelling for words where the pronunciation is not as obvious when read.
Let's assume this is the case. I mean, there's some evidence that it isn't the case but let's assume it is. There's a categorical difference between forgetting the "I before E, except after C" rule, or forgetting whether you need an 'e', an 'i', or an 'a' in words like "definitely", "separate", and "necessary" and fundamentally forgetting that a letter existed or how to handwrite a letter.
In this clip, there's a gentleman who "struggles with the character for 'thumb'." The above words are 3 and 4 syllables long but 拇指 (Mǔzhǐ) is only 2 syllables and he got half the word wrong. This is a far cry from simply mixing up the order of two letters like writing "beleive" instead of "believe". In other words, here's an article from just 2017 saying "Character amnesia has become more and more common...". Show me the article that says there's currently an epidemic of otherwise literate adults forgetting how to write basic words in English.
>The writing system survived for thousands of years because it was effective.
I mean, there's "effective" and there's "optimal", right? The Mayan civilization lasted for about 3000 years and had a glyph based writing system. Would you seriously advocate that this is an optimal system of writing? Probably not, right? So I think this argument is true but a little misleading, depending on what exactly you mean by "effective". Then again, "effective" is defined as "producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect". Was the "desired effect" of the language for its users to begin forgetting its own writing system?
>(ie, the use of physician, medic, and doctor for medical personnel), it gets a lot harder for the reader to guess what's being referred to.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Yeah, those are three different words with three different definitions and they might be industry-specific. But it's not about it being "harder" for a reader to understand the difference. When a reader comes across a word, they either know what the definition is or not. If it's a real word then then the burden is on the reader to go to a dictionary and look up what the word is. It's also the writers job to try to make their vernacular and syntax as clear as possible.
>Furthermore, they take up little room on the page
Ehhhhh, again, technically true, but so what? It's not even that big of a difference. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in English is 309 pages while in Chinese it's 242. This is not that much value-added.
Arguing that Hanzi has some benefits over romanization is like arguing that chopsticks has merit over the fork (another mistake in efficiency I think the East made). You're essentially saying "Sure, forks are ok, but look! you can't twirl a fork around like this can you?" It just strikes me as a pride thing.
Again! I'm a big fan of the language. I think there are some interesting logical ambiguities that exist in English that don't in Mandarin. For example, there's this joke in English — Question: "What did the logician say when his wife handed him their newborn and asked if it's a boy or a girl", Answer: "Yes" — Well, in Mandarin, since you specify Yes/No questions with the 'ma' particle, you avoid the ambiguity.
Come on, I know what I am talking about. None of those writers of that article know Slovak language, by the way. Be skeptical sometimes.
FACTS:
Consider this: https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Rowling/dp/059035342X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1491311673&sr=8-2&keywords=harry+potter+books (hardcover - 320 pages)
and:
http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=205410
(harcover - pages: 309)
And there are many more examples. We can go with a non-English author Jo Nesbo
(hardcover 480 pages)
http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=226387
(hardcover 555 pages)
The same book in hardcover is 75 pages longer in Slovak. And that's a lot. If it would be 5 or 10 pages ok, insignificant. But 75 pages at about 500 pages long hardcover is a big differenct.
My personal experience is similar. English books are shorter than their Slovak counterparts.
English books are shorter than Slovak books, you can read them quicker. That's a fact.
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https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Rowling/dp/059035342X
AND THE PLACE WHERE HE WENT TO THAT SCHOOL IS IN SCOTLAND.
HARRY POTTER IS REAL 100% CONFIRMED.
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