“Reading maketh a full man, …and writing an exact man.", a motto by Francis Bacon that elaborates the power of words. However, the knowledge of Payuan has long been hidden in our spoken languages and lacks literal documentation. In recent years, Payuan has made further steps due to the passing of national language development legislation which established the writing system of Payuan. Despite that, we are still facing a shortage of talented people in writing, narrow writing subjects, and controversy of the writing system, etc.
For urban Payuan, we can felt our culture is washing away in every moment because we are so distant from the tribe. Accompany with this sense of crisis, we carefully type words into sentences in the Wikipedia incubator while living in an urban city, afraid that some expressions are not authentic enough to the tribe.
One once said a world is created by languages, now, we make the world of Payuan more vivid and profound by writing. We are achieving —Reading Payuan maketh a full Payuan, …and writing Payuan an exact Payuan.
About dremedreman 湯賢慧
