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just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space (each character occupies a square, and has complex meaning of a word, and people read their shapes, rather tha
by billconan 8y ago
just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space (each character occupies a square, and has complex meaning of a word, and people read their shapes, rather than stroke by stroke )
- Koshkin 8y agoBut dots are more compact than strokes.
- kijin 8y agoStrokes allow for much more graceful degradation when you have to use a pen and paper.
- bredren 8y agoI think a key point of the language is that it points toward machine-reproduced printing and display only. Writing can still be Chinese, English or any other language. But for in-place printed labeling or digital display, something like this might be interesting.
- qlk1123 8y ago>just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space ... [cite needed][original research?]
- mcguire 8y agoIt occurs to me that the suggestion is actually interesting from an information theoretic standpoint. I understand that Chinese as a language is relatively "telegraphic" to start with. Is there a quantifiable difference with English writing? How much is the language and how much the writing system?
- birracerveza 8y agoWell, for example, per Google Translate Automobile 汽车 Reading chinese is basically the human version of attempting to read a .zip file.