This guy is a linguist? And his best argument is that characters take long to write using the example of a word whose only real use is the answer to the trivia question, &quot;what is the Chinese character containing the most strokes?&quot;<p>Also I would say a lot of Americans couldn&#x27;t spell English words correctly to save their lives, does that mean English is a problem? (I would say in general, yes. It&#x27;s a very hard language to learn)<p>So to summarize, dude who speaks English doesn&#x27;t want to learn other languages, says it should just be converted to English (pinyin) because English is _obviously_ a language with no faults at all and would be the best choice in this case. &#x2F;s<p>Edit: Also the author fails to recognize that even if a Chinese person doesn&#x27;t recognize the word exactly, the radical and underlying pictograms in the word describe what that word means and sometimes the tone&#x2F;pronunciation of the word. It is not just a bunch of random strokes on a paper.