Under the disguise of ‘the reunion of
spoken and written language’ people confine the written language,
reflecting the idea that we must sacrifice or abolish one feature for
another.
Jang Tayyem resists ‘the reunion of national language’ and Esperanto
with a ‘return to dialects’ (Peng, 2008). The language community for
Jang is not zero-sum.
One book whose title is not convenient to be written moves beyond
zero-sum view.