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THAT is a great point. A friend of mine once shared an anecdote about the word "to think". I don't remember the character right now... but it is composed of some arrangement of the words "I, heart,...

Well, the fact remains, one should not use PinYin as a crutch for the same reason one should not use Russian transliteration as a crutch. Admittedly, learning Chinese characters is difficult, but if...

Probably a bad example, but when I call for my phone card, an operator says that, which i translate as, "enter your number" It's probably a bad translation from english. :)

No. Chinsese has something I like to call inflections. It has 4 of them. Also, a given word may have a dozen homophones, yet each of these words has a distinct character.
I'm just picking a...