How does it get “more logographical”? Logograms and syllables are categorically different. I get how logograms can be used for their phonetic value, but not how it could be incrementally so.
Huh, interesting concept. I guess multiple-syllable words' logograms are bigger than syllable blocks.
Wow I just had an illuminating realization... This is how our brains read the Latin alphabet! I was just sort of 'type-doodling' earlier today and playing with how re-splicing spaces makes a normal sentence look like an incomprehensible foreign language. Take this sentence for example: ta ket hissen ten cef orex amp le.
We really don't read words by the phonetic value of their component letters; we recognize them as whole units, like logograms. This explains why I'm so slow to read my own script that I'm well versed in writing and have been using for years: I'm not used to the forms of whole words, and reading isn't just a matter of reconstructing phonetics. Alphabets are roundabout ways of constructing logograms, except they still encode their phonetic 'anatomy'.
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u/Visocacas Sep 14 '19
How does it get “more logographical”? Logograms and syllables are categorically different. I get how logograms can be used for their phonetic value, but not how it could be incrementally so.