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> I struggle enough with 26 letters! I genuinely can’t imagine this. alphabets are like x86 instructions of phonemes, Chinese scripts on the other hand is the
by est 3y ago
> I struggle enough with 26 letters! I genuinely can’t imagine this.
alphabets are like x86 instructions of phonemes, Chinese scripts on the other hand is the "bytecode" of many languages (mandarin/cantonese/you-name-it). The first emperor of China unified text writing but not the pronouciations
- geraldwhen 3y agoNot true. You know uppercase, lowercase, and cursive, as well as iconography used commonly in the west for various road signs, currencies, and governments. You know flags and warning labels. Kanji is just a superset of that.