Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms

eldavojohn writes "The AFP brings a story of a growing concern that children in China and Japan suffer from 'character amnesia' when asked to write the complex characters they are so used to inputting via alphabet-based systems. The article claims this is a growing problem. In China, they have a word for it: 'tibiwangzi,' which means 'take pen, forget paper.' China Youth Daily polled 2,072 people and found that 83% have problems writing characters (although there's no indication if that was an online poll or not). A young woman who was interviewed explained her workaround: 'When I can't remember, I will take out my cellphone and find it (the character) and then copy it down.'"

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[RMS Eats Toejam]

Stop being a bleeding vagina. Look at Korea and Japan, you stupid mother fucker. Both are decedents of mainland china and modified their languages as they saw fit. It's not a Western or Eastern bias, you ignorant nigger, evolution is as natural to humans as breathing.