If Red China's leaders have their way, the Chinese will in time have an alphabet that looks like this. Gone will be all of the Chinese language's 50,000 complex characters; in their stead will be a 30-letter Latin alphabet that includes every English letter except V, and five new letters to suit the Chinese tongue. This philological revolution, if it succeeds, may prove as sweeping in its own way as the Communist seizure of China.
At the dawn of civilization, so goes the Chinese legend, a wise man named Tsang Chieh took the signs of nature as his models and devised the...
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