Simplified or Traditional?

[Nyanfood]

I can read and write simplified, the read a bit of traditional.  

[Tokioka]

I can't read or write either types - so I'm a bit boned when it comes to chinese literature. Maybe I should have actually worked at chinese school instead of screwing around. Nah, screwin' around was much better! xp  

[Yozoh]

I guess it's better to learn traditional, since it's what they use in the newspaper, magazines and the news and dialogs. I think I watch too many chinese soap operas.... xd

@ tamandrew: Also... I very much agree with what you said about the chinese culture seeming very complex. We don't want to give the impression that we have a simple culture! Even if the culture itself is slowly diminishing and people are starting to mispronounce everything.. *cough cough*  

[wiim]

Not all Chinese newspapers, magazines, and other media use traditional. For example, the PRC uses simplified characters in everything. There are many sites out there that use simplified. I'm just glad Hong Kong maintained the traditional writing. 3nodding  

[Yozoh]

wiim

Not all Chinese newspapers, magazines, and other media use traditional. For example, the PRC uses simplified characters in everything. There are many sites out there that use simplified. I'm just glad Hong Kong maintained the traditional writing. 3nodding

..... Maybe it's because all I read about and all I see on tv has something related to Hong Kong. .... tvb sweatdrop

Oh yea! I remember seeing an episode of something in Mandarin.. it Did use simplified. I have a feeling that wiim is feeling that he is somewhat being followed.  

[wiim]

Hara Tsubasa

I have a feeling that wiim is feeling that he is somewhat being followed.

No, not at all. Why would you think that? smile  

[Yozoh]

wiim

Hara Tsubasa

I have a feeling that wiim is feeling that he is somewhat being followed.

No, not at all. Why would you think that? smile

Oh.. nothing. xd  

[Cat-Whiskers]

I can read and write in both simplified and traditional... though I'm pretty rusty in writing traditional characters.... do you know that some of the simplified version of the Chinese characters were originally from a type of caligraphy? That's right, they're from 草书，the characters like 龙 (dragon) were written that way long before the 1970's. Learned something there, didn't ya? xd  

[Yozoh]

Cat-Whiskers

I can read and write in both simplified and traditional... though I'm pretty rusty in writing traditional characters.... do you know that some of the simplified version of the Chinese characters were originally from a type of caligraphy? That's right, they're from 草书，the characters like 龙 (dragon) were written that way long before the 1970's. Learned something there, didn't ya? xd

Indeed I've never known that. Some of the simplified characters are quite different from the traditional ones.  

[Teh Vampy]

Traditional pwns. <3
Okay, I like simplified, too.

I like traditional better because that's what I learnt. And I can only read simplified. >.o Can't type it out though.

I can write traditional, but I can never write simplified. They're...hard. :/ For me. I know. I'm weird. xp  

[wiim]

Teh Vampy

Traditional pwns. <3
Okay, I like simplified, too.

I like traditional better because that's what I learnt. And I can only read simplified. >.o Can't type it out though.

I can write traditional, but I can never write simplified. They're...hard. :/ For me. I know. I'm weird. xp

Not weird. I don't know whether your case is the same as mine because I was taught and was surrounded by traditional styles all my life. I can't read or write simplified either; some of their characters look like they're from a foreign language to me.  

[Yozoh]

wiim

Teh Vampy

Traditional pwns. <3
Okay, I like simplified, too.

I like traditional better because that's what I learnt. And I can only read simplified. >.o Can't type it out though.

I can write traditional, but I can never write simplified. They're...hard. :/ For me. I know. I'm weird. xp

Not weird. I don't know whether your case is the same as mine because I was taught and was surrounded by traditional styles all my life. I can't read or write simplified either; some of their characters look like they're from a foreign language to me.

some of the simplified characters are hard to write, others are just hard to reconize, and the rest are alright. And for the typing... Isn't it just as easy as changing the output format?  

[jennnnx3]

i cant read any of them... sweatdrop  

[Niphredil Ithilmir]

我还是觉得简体字容易一些...  

[yalie5]

i tried to get my parents to teach me but they kept fighting over how to teach me so i'm thinking i should give up and become a bonafide twinkie.