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I don't propose that Dotsies is without flaws or destined for any amount of adoption. Having said that, here is my parody of the reaction the poor sap (let's c

I don't propose that Dotsies is without flaws or destined for any amount of adoption. Having said that, here is my parody of the reaction the poor sap (let's call him Marcus Librus) got who originally posted the latin alphabet on the ancient Roman version of Hacker News (let's call it Papyrus Tidings): Brutus Quidus: I've looked at your alleged alphabet for 30 seconds and have discovered all of the flaws. It is clear it will never work. First off, your O and Q are nearly impossible to distinguish. What if there's a piece of dirt on my scroll where I put the O? It's obvious you didn't do any research. Claudius Acerbus: Is this serious? This will never ever work. Besides the achilles heel that if you have an N next to an I people will think it's an M, that circle thing looks just like a D. And if you have 2 D's on top of each other people will think it's a B! Christ! Err, wait, not born yet. You'll see!

jimminy 15y ago
Even your parody is flawed. If you go back to when the Latin Alphabet was introduced there were approximately 100 million people in the entire world, and only a subset of a subset would have been required to adopt this. Over nearly 3 millennia, the Latin alphabet has been improved upon and become widely adopted by even common-folk, to the point several billion people are familiar with it. You're task of adoption is several magnitudes harder. Your alternative provides no significant value over the Latin Alphabet, unless you want to use it for a simple obfuscational encoding. If you want to reduce the size and amount of visual information provided, look at Kanji, mathematical syntax, or shorthand notations (although these tend to vary by person). Don't get so defensive. As it is it's not very good for tons of practical purposes, many that have been pointed out here. You even said that you can't interpret it as quickly as you can the Latin Alphabet, yet. Find a way to fix the flaws that have been pointed out, and come back. It's a novel approach and idea, but not practical for any use, currently.

jimminy 15y ago

Even your parody is flawed. If you go back to when the Latin Alphabet was introduced there were approximately 100 million people in the entire world, and only a subset of a subset would have been required to adopt this. Over nearly 3 millennia, the Latin alphabet has been improved upon and become widely adopted by even common-folk, to the point several billion people are familiar with it. You're task of adoption is several magnitudes harder. Your alternative provides no significant value over the Latin Alphabet, unless you want to use it for a simple obfuscational encoding. If you want to reduce the size and amount of visual information provided, look at Kanji, mathematical syntax, or shorthand notations (although these tend to vary by person). Don't get so defensive. As it is it's not very good for tons of practical purposes, many that have been pointed out here. You even said that you can't interpret it as quickly as you can the Latin Alphabet, yet. Find a way to fix the flaws that have been pointed out, and come back. It's a novel approach and idea, but not practical for any use, currently.