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Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿★@lemmy.ml to Linguistics@mander.xyz · 1 year ago

Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?

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Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?

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Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿★@lemmy.ml to Linguistics@mander.xyz · 1 year ago
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    The most fascinating thing about the Tangut script is that it was created by a single individual. One man sat down and thought “this is gonna be great!”. What an absolute madman.

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      Similarly, Cherokee syllabary and Hangul for Korean. The former was even created by someone who was himself illiterate!

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      Easy/hard in which aspect? And how do we even measure it?

      I’m confused as to if you read the article, since you point out Chinese characters later. Did you?

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          the Committee saw no pressure to introduce a phonetic system for Mandarin

          This is particularly interesting to me: where did you get this?

          Thanks for the thorough comment.

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