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This isn't exactly what the article is about, but I've noticed that English is becoming more like Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The rise of
by xhkkffbf 5y ago
This isn't exactly what the article is about, but I've noticed that English is becoming more like Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The rise of emoji, text-speak-shorthand and making communication more pictograms.
- hnfong 5y agoKorean is essentially a phonetic language now. Japanese is half, with only the Kanji part arguably derived from pictograms. Even Chinese writing is not really a pictogram system for the reasons outlined in the article. In practice, the majority of characters are constructed with a radical plus a phonetic component. Also, by the way, the vast majority (if not all) "Asian" languages are phonetic unless they have Chinese influence.