Re: [idn] Summary of TS-SC discussion

[Jack Halpern <jack@kanji.org>]

Greetings

I
 >But because TC-SC also have is Traditional-Traditional,
 >Traditional-Simplified, Simplified-Traditional and Simplified-Simplified
 >variant, this gives us a max of n*4 combination, one for each. ("Taiwan"
 >in your example falls into the T-T and T-S variant).
 >
 >This is why TC/SC is not really n^2 combination. Opertionally, it is
 >closely to n*2 to n*4 from experience.
 
This way of thinking is based on a misunderstanding of the exact meanings 
what SC and TC. The simplified form of TAI in Taiwan is indeed an SC form, 
but **it is also a TC form** in the sense that it is used in Taiwan -- in fact, 
it is the preferred form. Also note, as well known, that form identical in SC 
and TC are very common. In the case of TAI, we are talking about TC 
variants (see details in my paper on TC vartiants at
http://www.cjk.org/cjk/reference/tcvar.htm ).

 
Comparing "ABC" vs. "abc" to SC vs TC is a flase analogy at best and does not take
the true nature of the Chinese script into account.


 >-James Seng
 >
 >


Regards, Jack Halpern
	President, The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc. 
        http://www.cjk.org Phone: +81-48-473-3508