Why China a Cannot Have Tyyewriters.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 October 1914, Page 2

Why China a Cannot Have Tyyewriters.

It is said" that; '. while typewriters.^ aiyijs^njow; use.inijiearly \fd hundred different ' larfgxufge's, anh they are/-, all ~ov,er, the.-? world, there is,'.sftir dne_ fereat -niation which ha.s i^o -typewriters '.£l\^t "write its tongue?" J "Thlatcrhatt<J^■ '-is- ':S. China, and the reason is very simple. The JSiiglish,^) alphabet' : - hfcs twenty-six i&k(sr*j:h*i ThfeU^y^v^vit^i^rodJiceci for "'TFe'~^ErffSStaiT-Tnarket--49-^he-tlar-gest made ; bu^,np.)'type\vriter could be made ..that could be big enough for th'e J Chinese languttge1, which is represented by sign characters, of which -there are about --- 50,000.:, ,Otthe gr.eat number of words found in the English) language; only small .proportion are used for the ordinary purposes of speech, and the same- is true. of the characters - used in th^' Chinese j ldngu^.gesi-0 but ■'■ the number Chinese characters commonly ieihployed \ is" still far greater than, could .be put on any typewriter. So this nation: of1 400,000,000.has no typewriter in its .own language. Bu£r that does not mean that no "typewriters^-are :sqlcl; s iru Chma\ hi-iMP^^X/aiui, more. are, learning other' languages besides their own," aria1 'many'1 'mer^' chants use typewriters.