The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

PS. I once watched a Chinese (Mainland) movie where detectives from Beijing go to a town in the deep North where people speak Mandarin very poorly or not at all.  In order to get a problematic word across, the speaker would draw its character on the palm of his hand, with the index finger as a pen and "air ink"; an then the other party would immediately understand.

All the best, --stolfi