>> There's an urban myth that in Chinese, the pitch of the word dictates
>> which word it is...
>
> The same sound has up to four different tones possible. That doesn't
> make it unambiguous, tho. For each sound+tone, there's still dozens of
> meanings you need to disambiguate, even if it's written.

The writing system has over eight million characters, and it's *still* 
ambiguous?

What the hell do Chinese people *say* to each other?! o_O

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