It doesn’t mean to say, your physic life will be
shorten, but if during the same life span, you only intake half the information
as other language, isn’t that mean to say you have waste half of your life?
Now, let’s demonstrate it.
One Chinese
person takes a card from a deck of playing cards
randomly, he asked his Chinese friend in English: ‘What this is?’ By these
three words, his friend knows what the card is. While an English person asks
the same question to his friend, he doesn’t know what the card is. The trick is
the tone. What is tone? In YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZB9-vZFesk the girl will show you what
tones in mandarin are. The Mandarin has four tones for any syllable,
then ‘what’ can be whāt,
whát, whǎt,
whàt. They use the first one for
spade, the second one for heart, the third one for diamond and the fourth one
for club, (see table below). After this,
they use the four ‘this’ for 1, 2, 3, 4, and four ‘is’ as well. 4x4=16>13,
the 14 is red joker and 15 is black joker, table:
From
this example, you may understand that in every syllable, the English speaker
miss out 4-1=3 information compare with Mandarin speaker. Within every two
combined syllables, 4x4-1=15 information missed out. Within every three
combined syllables, 4x4x4-1=63 information miss out. The formula is 4n-1.
Just think about, during the whole life, how many information does English
speaker miss out comparing a Mandarin speaker?
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