Thursday, June 12, 2014

Pinyin - The Chinese and their love affair with numbers.

Ever wondered about the Chinese and their love for numbers. This is not a coincidence that majority of the Chinese population uses emails or register websites or create accounts with Numbers or Roman style of counting rather than using a name or a recognizable phrase.
It is the reason of the culture they are in, the way they have been introduced into education and the only way they are comfortable with and finally the only way they can remember to the best of their abilities.

Pinyin, the language is used to help children associate characters with words that they already know. It is also used by a large group of illiterates in this country for self study.


This language is based on numbers and with use of number from early childhood. The C
hinese develop a habbit of remembering numbers better than phrases, names. The best examples of found can be found by checking the websites or the email addresses that use. Most of them are created using inscrutable numbers, something which is hard for the rest of the cyber humanity to comprehend.

It now becomes increasingly interesting to see if the same applies to the new gTLD .WANG. Are they going for to suit the comprehension ability of the rest of the world or would go on to make the others as smart as they are ;).

The answers would come soon and we would see if the Red Dragon bends down or create another wall similar to the one that is already there.


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