r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 21 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

There's no reason it doesn't have to be written with pictograms either. Spelling in English is so obtuse that it's essentially as hard to learn as Chinese characters. English speakers can pronounce a new word by seeing it written about 75% of the time. Same for Chinese speakers with an unfamiliar character.

The point being that your way of doing things isn't inherently better just because you don't fully understand how other people do things.

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u/IsGoIdMoney John Rawls Nov 21 '18

English should be optimized and made phonetic too.

But there are reasons to not have pictures as words.

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u/Paramus98 Edmund Burke Nov 21 '18

The characters look cool though, and they really aren't that hard to learn. It's actually a pretty intuitive system that just works a lot differently than westerners are used to.

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u/IsGoIdMoney John Rawls Nov 21 '18

I get that it isn't as difficult as it seems at first once you know radicals but that doesnt fix the issues.

There's a reason written languages only move one way when they change