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Let's go back to 1000 BC, and re-invent Chinese.
by backpropaganda 9y ago
Let's go back to 1000 BC, and re-invent Chinese.
- codefined 9y agoI can just imagine some over-worked scribe attempting to draw one of the more complex shapes like: https://thenounproject.com/browse/?i=1037952 https://thenounproject.com/browse/?i=1037952 https://thenounproject.com/term/keyboard/1018886/ https://thenounproject.com/term/keyboard/1018886/ I think there was a reason Chinese wasn't based upon the images of the things they were writing about!
- WalterBright 9y agoEven the ancient Egyptians gave up on icons and assigned sounds to them, turning it into a phonetic alphabet.