Is cursive Chinese sometimes really hard to understand?
This is a letter written by Mao Zedong 毛澤東 on 1 May 1955 to his colleague Jiang Zhuru 蔣竹如, addressing the topic of pīnyīn 拼音 as a form of written Chinese: The text reads: 竹如兄：二月惠書收讀，甚謝！兄作語文學研究，提出不同意見，我雖未能同意，但辯論總是會有益的。來書已付文字改革委員會研究去了。拼音文字是較便利的一種文字形式。漢字太繁難，目前只作簡化改革，將來總有一天要作根本改革的。此覆，順問教安。毛澤東 一九五五年五月一日。” Translation Dear Zhuru: I have received and read your esteemed letter of last February. Many thanks! Your study of spoken and … Read more