It may sound bathetic, but there is no turning the tide. A little over 30 million people around the world use traditional characters, compared to 1.3 billion who use simplified characters. Moreover, because the Chinese government wields ever greater political and economic influence, many worry that traditional characters will be competed out of existence or, like Latin, become an exclusive script understood only by scholars, professors and experts.
雖然聽來悲哀又可笑，但「時勢比人強」，目前全球使用正體字的人口大約有三千多萬人，簡體字則佔 13 億人，再加上中共政經影響力提升，的確令人憂心日後正體字是否會被淘汰而絕跡，或像拉丁文一樣，成為學者、教授、專家才懂的菁英文字？