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Thread: Which is better? Simplified Chinese Character or Traditional Chinese?

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[quote=GUEST30225,359755]I have found that in general I do not like the simplified characters. They for the most part have destroyed the shape of Chinese Characters. However, sometimes I think that a few simplified characters have merits.
I am fluently litereate in Japanese, not so much in Chinese. As you probably know, Japanese have simplified a few of their characters. Not the the extent that China did. Japan usually simplified the character if there was a widely distributed hand-written variant(ie:学 as opposed to 學). I think 学 is easier to write, and is easier to read as there are not so many lines(you don't have to squint or have large font), and it does not really look too similar to any other character. And it does not have the unnaturally 'sharpness' that simplified chinese seems to have.
I would prefer Chinese symbols to follow that pattern. I have found that Japanese-Chinese characters still retain their traditional look even if they have been simplified. I think that the Chinese writing system should be reconciled into one system. Doing away with most of the terrible communist simplifications, but retaining some like 间 as opposed to 間 - which i have seen in traditional handwriting anyway. That way there would be only one system. Phonetic elements, meaning and asthetics would be put back into the system, and hard to read and write symbols such as 學 could be simplified.

That is my opinion anyway[/quote]

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