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I'm not saying forcing the Latin alphabet onto Germanic languages was ideal. What I'm saying is that European (and some others) writing systems are better than Asian writing systems, by which I mean the idea of using a couple dozen letters, with relatively simple designs, which represent sounds, and stringing them together phoenetically to make words, is better than Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, etc. Japanese isn't terrible but the characters are too complex and a lot of of them are not phoenetic. Chinese is bullshit. Korean is better but the way the characters are built is not as easy as building words in European writing. Thai and Arabic have the same problem as Korean but instead of neatly building characters, they build words by smashing symbols together. European writing systems are superior.
Because literacy rates in the "inferior" northeast asian languages was always WAY higher than the "superior" English writing system.
They've been dealing with the complexity of Chinese characters for the better part of 2,000 years, and they've done a pretty good job. The Koreans invented their own writing system but even that is not enough. There is a reason why most world languages were not alphabets.
Because literacy rates in the "inferior" northeast asian languages was always WAY higher than the "superior" English writing system.
They've been dealing with the complexity of Chinese characters for the better part of 2,000 years, and they've done a pretty good job. The Koreans invented their own writing system but even that is not enough. There is a reason why most world languages were not alphabets.