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It certainly doesn’t help literacy in general, but one advantage of a writing system divorced from phonetics is that you can still read old written material eve
by layer8 2y ago
It certainly doesn’t help literacy in general, but one advantage of a writing system divorced from phonetics is that you can still read old written material even after the phonetics have changed over time.
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoAnother advantage of using pictograms is that people who speak completely different versions of Chinese can still communicate in writing. They may pronounce the characters completely differently, but the characters still mean the same thing.