(My friends know that's one of the easiest ways to get an amusing rise out of me - I have a couple of heated comparisons that I always automatically spout off. For those who've read 1984 I tell them Simplified is the Newspeak of Chinese, and for those who haven't, I tell them it cuts the balls off the Chinese language.
In short: GO TRADITIONAL. OMG. There is so much more meaning/nuance/poetry to complicated characters, and you can actually make good puns with them instead of having people baffledly saying "but it is the same word!" No, no it isn't.)
(Edit: And don't even get me started on Firefly's "Chinese". AAAAAAGH)
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(My friends know that's one of the easiest ways to get an amusing rise out of me - I have a couple of heated comparisons that I always automatically spout off. For those who've read 1984 I tell them Simplified is the Newspeak of Chinese, and for those who haven't, I tell them it cuts the balls off the Chinese language.
In short: GO TRADITIONAL. OMG. There is so much more meaning/nuance/poetry to complicated characters, and you can actually make good puns with them instead of having people baffledly saying "but it is the same word!" No, no it isn't.)
(Edit: And don't even get me started on Firefly's "Chinese". AAAAAAGH)