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1. ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☭ (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 02:15:15 UTC ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☭

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   @adiz @AgreeableLandscape yup, I think that's the biggest downside of the system, but it is what it is I guess. I've come to terms with it simply being a matter of spending the time to build the neural pathways. :)

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   • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☭ (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 02:15:17 UTC ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☭

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     @adiz @AgreeableLandscape like if I didn't know the logograms for fire and car there's no way for me to guess train from looking at the cahracters

   • 防空識別區［𐌍Ꝋ𐌌𐌀𐌃］ (adiz@outerkosm.us)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 02:15:17 UTC 防空識別區［𐌍Ꝋ𐌌𐌀𐌃］

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     @yogthos@mas.to Yeah, exactly. And, even if you didn't know what "fire" or "car" meant in English, as long as you knew the phonetics, you could at least pronounce and say the words by "sounding it out". There is no way to convey pronunciation intrinsically within Chinese. You either know what a logogram is meant to sound like or you don't. @AgreeableLandscape@mastodon.social

   • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☭ (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 02:15:19 UTC ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☭

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     @adiz @AgreeableLandscape yeah I think that from efficiency standpoint alphabet based systems have a lot of advantages.

     And being able to figure out what the word you're not familiar with from how it's spelled is a big benefit. With the logograms you either know it or you don't.