OnWritingAndAlphabets
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Context : OnLanguage, OnText
Alphabets beat ideograms / hieroglyphs
- fewer to learn, easier to learn to read
- easier to comine
- easier to make movable type printing
- easier to make typewriters and keyboards
(Of course ideograms might work better on TabletComputers)
(See also : BangTheRocksTogether)
GordonBrander on Small Alphabets : http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/small-alphabets/
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