 One hesitates for an epithet to describe a system of writing which is so complex that it needs the aid of another system to explain it. There is no doubt that it provides for some a fascinating field of study, but as a practical instrument it is surely...  Writing Systems of the Worldde Florian Coulmas - 1991 - 316 pagesAucun aperçu disponible - À propos de ce livre
 | Richard John Bowring, Haruko Uryu Laurie - 1992 - 504 pages
...furigana. It is this phenomenon that prompted the scholar and diplomat Sir George Sansom to write: 'One hesitates for an epithet to describe a system...it needs the aid of another system to explain it.' Remembering how unfamiliar kanji are written can also be a problem. The unusually high rate of literacy... | |
 | Robin D. Gill - 2004 - 740 pages
...to play with Chinese characters (a godsend for punsters) have reaped scornful comment from the West: "One hesitates for an epithet to describe a system...it needs the aid of another system to explain it." writes the historian Sansom in 1928 (in Unger:J'* Generation Fallacy) and, from the East. The novelist... | |
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