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I work with a friend who is Chinese and she often takes notes while learning things. She is at least as fast as I am at longhand writing in English AND she has
by xmcqdpt2 3y ago
I work with a friend who is Chinese and she often takes notes while learning things. She is at least as fast as I am at longhand writing in English AND she has to translate to Chinese on the fly. Also she ends up with WAY more compact notes than would be possible in an alphabet.
I think maybe it's English that would benefit from being written in ideograms! The popularity of emoji is partly due to their compactness.
- Jamesbeyond 3y agoYep, Chinese characters are terrifyingly complicated, but the Chinese language is more compact sentence-wise and text-wise. Actually, the Chinese were acutely aware of how inconvenient the heavily-stroked characters are. That's why they invented simplified Chinese.