>For example, English way of writing is terrible for expressing sounds. Japanese or the korean ways are much better Or Spanish by the way. Just wanted to point

>For example, English way of writing is terrible for expressing sounds. Japanese or the korean ways are much better Or Spanish by the way. Just wanted to point out that the style of syllabary that Japanese uses wouldn't be practical for English. Japanese has around 150 possible syllables, English has almost 16,000 [1]. [1] http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Syllables/index.txt http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Syllables/inde...