Alphabet Quote by Eric A. Havelock

“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the Chinese writing…

— Walter J. Ong

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a…

— Gao Xingjian

Mandarin is gonna be the language in 15 to 20 years.

— Stephon Marbury

“Many modern alphabets, including ours, retain with minor modifications that original sequence (and, in the case of Greek, even the letters’ original names: alpha,…

— Jared Diamond

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will…

— Ambrose Bierce

English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the future Chinese…

— Noam Chomsky

“with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system,…

— Nicholas Ostler

New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way.…

— David Letterman

For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the…

— Daniel Wu

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic.

— W. Kamau Bell

“In this respect, the Chinese written language has a slight advantage over our own, and is perhaps symptomatic of a different way of thinking.…

— Alan Wilson Watts