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True, but I think you're focusing on the wrong aspect. (I originally said Turkish, then Bosnian, then decided that the ideogram-rather-than-letters aspect was w
by silentbicycle 16y ago
True, but I think you're focusing on the wrong aspect. (I originally said Turkish, then Bosnian, then decided that the ideogram-rather-than-letters aspect was worth drawing a parallel to Chinese, and have since changed it back to Bosnian.)
The parallels to actual human languages also break down here - reading APL is intimidating like reading Chinese, but it also has less than a hundred symbols (fifty-ish, IIRC), so it's really not comparabl in terms of "systematic problems with literacy and reading comprehension". I think the APL-languages are more like vi. Do vi(m) users think "9kdd2jp"? In writing, it looks like noise.