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Isn't it peculiar that we started out with pictograms, then migrated to alphabets, but now there is movement back towards pictograms? Of course this is an over
by bootlooped 9y ago
Isn't it peculiar that we started out with pictograms, then migrated to alphabets, but now there is movement back towards pictograms?
Of course this is an over-simplified view of things, even for a language lay-person like myself.
- digi_owl 9y agoNever mind that different OSs/fonts will represent the same thing in different ways. That said, supposedly China could grow to the size it reached thanks to its writing system encoded meaning rather than sounds. Thus different communities with different languages could get one letter from the emperor and all understand it.
- ZenPsycho 9y agothis wasn't always the case. The different communities used to have different characters as well as different words. there had to be unification. by military force.