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Saturday, May 03, 2003

Chinese language, the language of God?

Now personally this makes a decent point to some degree. But you do have to understand that they take some incredible liberties in how the words are done here. The word "mouth" is also seeming dubbed for "breath" or other things. Besides, even though continuous, the characters had evolved over long periods of times, and not to mention having to go through multiple dialects and changes. I mean long ago there were several different "forms" of Chinese written by different kingdoms, so it's really impossible to truly say which one is the "direct" decendent of the original Chinese language, if they are or just versions of other languages at the time.

Not to mention that they used modern Chinese as a reference. Despite what they say, Chinese language has been around a long time yes, but that's kinda like saying that Nintendo's been around a long time as well. The comparison is kinda futile because Nintendo has changed a lot over the years which Chinese has done so as well. Perhaps not as much as other languages, but a significant amount in order to really differ each other from the next. Lastly, sometimes the inclusion of other characters into one character doesn't mean anything or means very little. At one point of time it could have meant something, but it isn't necessarily a direct correlation to what this website might imply, it's more of fancy of who originated that character in the first place.

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