Talk:Samuel Wells Williams

(Harnji)

• "one of the first attempts at Romanizing the Chinese language for the purpose of teaching the natives through another medium than their own characters."
• "so long as there are scores of homophonous characters, the characters are indispensable in order to discriminate the homophones. Even with the assistance of double and triple compounds, references to the characters are constantly made in speaking, in order to render the sense clear."