An Example that Says the Importance of Prudence in the Interpretation of What Is Unknown and on Which One Always Places What One Thinks to Know.: - History and Society

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Zhao Yuanren (1892-1982) opposed the "Romanization" of the Mandarin Chinese. To defend his point of view, he wrote a poem of 92 Chinese characters, whose phonetic version is "shi" (with different tonalities). His idea was to demonstrate how much wealth is lost when one tries to "phonetize" Mandarin Chinese. This example borrowed from the Chinese language also tells in his own way the difficulty of approaching a people, a civilization whatever it…