He believes that the phonetic-based scripts of the West lack a "conceptual" basis: everything has a unique word for it. With progress the number of words has exploded. Turning the Tide for Chinese Culture: "Chinese characters are altogether different. Take, for example, the word for 'vehicle.'
他認為，西方拼音文字是一種沒有「概念」的文字，每一件物事，都要用一個字來表達，因此文字隨時代演進數目愈來愈多，形成爆炸。