Another Short History of Linguistics (84)

I have said that the Japanese don’t like to look for their own thinking style but love to learn and borrow from other countries, the give their practice a beautiful name as ‘adopt good points from others’ 博采众长. But in most case, they only learn language or culture from other partially and with bias. When I was talking about my linguistic law, I have said that after the Greece learn alphabetic letter from Phoenician, many great thinkers were born in Greece. But after Japanese learn characters from China, it seemed no thinker was born in that country. My reason is that when the Greece learn the alphabetic letters from Phoenician, they increased the number of sound several times by the invented vowel, while when Japanese learn character from China, they missed plenty sounds by missing the tone. That is the quantity decide thinking speed. But this phenomenon is only happened in a natural environmental. It means to say, an environmental that have not been intervened by an academic system.  For an academic system is like a bureaucratic system. Its job is filtering out thinker. So the better an academic system is, the less thinkers it will be. And the bad luck is China had the best such system. Furthermore, today, all of the teacher in such a system are the students of 鲁迅Lu Xun (the literature icon of communist party), 钱玄同Qian Xuan Tong，陈独秀Chen Du Xiu (the funder of Chinese communist party). They got their position was not by their new idea but by the length of year that they remained in school. And for this reason they still insist the view of their graduation thesis 50 years ago that ‘only alphabetic language could be the master of the world.’