Yes, traditional Chinese is very different from Modern Chinese, that doesn't mean the differences come from English. Traditional Chinese hasn't been spoken by the common people for hundreds of years. What people spoke was vernacular Chinese and the Beijing dialect is what Modern Standard Chinese is based on.
What I can find is they actually tried to make the standard some mix of Southern and Northern dialects but that never really worked out. Probably not in the least because there's a fundamental problem, how are you going to teach a language to a whole country when nobody speaks that language yet?
I really don't see how they could have gone then with English grammar instead since it has the same problem, nor can I find any reference about it.
>Punctuations. Traditional Chinese uses only period, if it uses punctuation at all. Yet now modern Chinese uses all kinds of English punctuation
Punctuation is just convenient, it doesn't change the language.
>The entire framework of studying Chinese comes from the English/European world.
What I can find is they actually tried to make the standard some mix of Southern and Northern dialects but that never really worked out. Probably not in the least because there's a fundamental problem, how are you going to teach a language to a whole country when nobody speaks that language yet?
I really don't see how they could have gone then with English grammar instead since it has the same problem, nor can I find any reference about it.
>Punctuations. Traditional Chinese uses only period, if it uses punctuation at all. Yet now modern Chinese uses all kinds of English punctuation
Punctuation is just convenient, it doesn't change the language.
>The entire framework of studying Chinese comes from the English/European world.
So?