中国字： 很多年之前，刚来美时，我对我的美国同事作了个实验。为了显示中国字的

信息丰富，我把一行中国字的一半盖住，只看剩下的而照念不误。以后，我觉得我们的文字笔画太多，太浪费了。Using alphabatics is a smarter way to create new words and in general more efficient in convey meanings.  We don't need to draw two trees or three trees to let others know there are trees there. Also,can you say 漂亮两字就比丑陋两字漂亮？