2003-05-03 16:21:29, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:

>Nicholas Bodley wrote:

[...]

>> This is interesting, in that it suggests that when learning to read
>> Chinese, there might be at least some awareness of the constituent
>> parts of each character. I'd expect that to be so, especially where
>> the radical is easy to see.

[...]

>(When would it not be "easy to see"?

{chuckling] Oh, my. That's a point of view of a real novice dilettante occasional
student* of CJK! Of course. Once one learns CJK decently, surely what at first
look hard to discern eventually becomes familiar.
*Hardly that... yrs trly.

Again, thanks for the ongoing education.

{still smiling}

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