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29 Aug 1804

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Monosyllable

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Europeans cannot
articulate more than
300 distinct syllables

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Ching has 51 distinct
meanings & distinct
characters.

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Not alphabetical.

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212 radicals

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Not symbollical.

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Status quo for 2000 yrs.

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The 212 radicals form
a part of every other
character.

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10000 differt characters

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Order of arrangemt in
dictionaries from the
least to the most
complicated radicals.

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The complicated characters
are analagous in significatn
to the radical
of which enters into
the composition.

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Radical not difficult
of discovery.

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Extremely figurative –
the several characters representing
happiness a daman one a
monk, & cultivated
ground, signifying
happiness happiness or
comfort.

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Continual additions
are made to the no
of characters.

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Every compound
character is a definition

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No characters, however
great the no of characters
that enters into its
composition has more
than a monosyllable
sound.

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The Chinese, Japan, Tonquin
& Corbin China
characters tho' the same,
have in each nation
differt name unintelligible
to each other.

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Chinese youth from 6
to 12 employed in learning
the names of the
most simple characters
without attaching any
ideas to them.

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The name of a character has no reference to
its meaning.

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The lear eleves learn a
vol. of Confucius by
heart witho & are able
to turn to any character
by the name, without
havg any idea of the
signification

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They next learn to trace
the characters & are occuied
in this 4 yrs more.

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The next acquire the
meaning of the characters
of from the dictionary

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Spoken language has
no inflection of terminatn

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Europeans can only
utter 350 radical sounds
Chinese 12 or 1300

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Incapable of being
understood if read –
must be seen to be
understood.

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80000 characters – 1331
words, 60 character
has therefore in an average
must therefore have
the same monosyllabic
name.

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15000 characters sufficient
for common purposes,
each each monosyllable
will therefore have
12 differt significations.

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In common conversation
to make themselves
understood they add an expletive.

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Nouns are indeclinable.

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Verbs not conjugative.

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Tenses 3 – present, past
& future.

As they make use of
the same word to signify
so many differt things
they are not always intelligible
to each other
in conversation & are
therefore obliged to obliged
to describe the character
with their hand in the
by which the thing
is designated

Identifier: | JB/109/045/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1804-08-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	Jan-31
Box	109	Main Headings
Folio number	045	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	35700
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