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153. In Character

The Allusionist

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China's Romanization

Mous romanization was part of this larger eurasian wave of romanization. The alphabet is a tool, and if we can use it to help us achieve our ends, like literacy, technology, unity, then why not? It is just the tool. In any case, they thought they were bending the west to serve china because they were not going to let go of the chinese writing system. But what the alphabet was going to do was pacicanomo like a, like a plugin. Because when it came to the outside world's new communication technologies, China had to adapt its language or pay a heavy price,. For instance, when telegraphy was developed,

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