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Why is using alphabets and pictograms a degradation? Explained in a way that is something other than "pictograms were used long ago so they are bad". It also s
by xboxnolifes 11mo ago
Why is using alphabets and pictograms a degradation? Explained in a way that is something other than "pictograms were used long ago so they are bad".
It also seems that the assumption is that alphabets were an improvement in every way. Why is this a given?
- WalterBright 11mo agoBecause you cannot look up a pictogram to divine its meaning. There are a million words in English. You can trivially look any of them up. > "pictograms were used long ago so they are bad" Please don't put words in my mouth that I never wrote. Pictograms evolved into phonetic alphabets over and over in history, because phonetic alphabets are objectively better. Take a chapter from "Lord of the Rings" and redo it with pictograms. Good luck with that.