Do you make it a habit to misquote people on purpose? My post is right there, if you want to use quotation marks to say I said something, at least write what I actually wrote instead of making something up, that's very dishonest. I'm very specifically saying ideograms/logograms aren't a "functional" writing system (yeah, they are technically "functional" - as imperial units, they are just very bad). Ideograms/logograms aren't exclusive to the Japanese - and neither do the Japanese use only that system (so your fabricated quote is non sequitur). The mention of Japanese is a context parody of the comment I replied to, had the guy said "Excellent time for Chinese..." then my sentence would say Chinese instead of Japanese. I'm roasting a writing system and you all trying to make it about race... quite sad and pathetic excuse to be outraged. ps: "Imperial measurement users" are an "identifying or culturally significant group", they are called Americans - technically, Liberia and Myanmar also primarily use imperial units, but they are not a culturally significant group over the internet. So if you are talking about "imperial measurement users", you are talking about Americans.

I'm not being dishonest, I paraphrased. >Excellent time for the Japanese to drop ideogram/logogram system and have an alphabet like a functional language. Your original comment (included above for convenience) very clearly implies that Japanese is not a functional language because doesn't use an alphabet. I didn't misrepresent you at all. >"Imperial measurement users" are an "identifying or culturally significant group", they are called Americans First, plenty of other places other than America, Liberia, and Myanmar use imperial units. Even if it didn't, the inclusion of Liberia and Myanmar means "imperial system users" isn't just identifying Americans, so you're just flat out incorrect about that. I'm ignoring the bit where you said "[Liberia and Myanmar] are not culturally significant groups over the internet" because that implies that you think bigotry only exists on the Internet, or maybe you think you can only be bigoted against a group with a large enough Internet presence or something? Which I know you can't possibly think, so I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt there and chalking that up to a miscommunication. Second, bigotry necessarily involves holding an unreasonable position or belief. The belief that the imperial system is worse than metric is not unreasonable, because there's evidence supporting that belief, and there's even a large number of imperial system users that hold that belief. The belief that it's "time for the Japanese to drop ideogram/logogram system and have an alphabet like a functional language" is unreasonable for the reasons I explained previously. Third, it doesn't matter what ethnicity or nationality you used, the structure of your statement would still be bigoted, because it would still be an unreasonable belief that prejudices against a particular group of people. Hope this helps.

"The belief that the imperial system is worse than metric is not unreasonable" Is the belief that the logographic system is worse than alphabets (and abugidas, for that matter) unreasonable? You seem to suggest that, arbitrarily, for this case it's not just unreasonable, but also bigotry... "It's time for the Japanese to drop their system" - racism. "It's time for the Americans to drop their system" - not racism. Ok, whatever makes you feel better about yourself. I will still say logograms and imperial units are awful.

> I think ideograms suck because they are an extremely bad writing system, and imperial units suck because they are an extremely bad measurement system And I think you suck because you are an extremely bad person. Equivalent statement right?

Oh no, now you are being bigot towards \*whatever ethnicity I belong\*

>Is the belief that the logographic system is worse than alphabets (and abugidas, for that matter) unreasonable? Lol yes. Both systems have benefits and drawbacks, it's unreasonable to say either is "worse" than the other. It's certainly not as clear-cut as the comparison between the imperial and metric systems.

In alphabets you learn a small set of letters. Using those letters you form syllables. With those syllables you can read every single word in that language (yeah, through historical processes most languages fucked up the connection between syllables and phonemes, but that's a different matter). Meanwhile logographic systems have no logical way to form words, as most words are their own symbol. In current logogram languages you are expected to learn from 2000 to 4000 different characters (compared to an average of 20-something letters in alphabets) just to read **most** publications - and odds are that if you try to read something from an area you have no expertise in, you are going to stumble upon several words you can't even read (difference between ability to read and knowing the meaning. One may stumble upon a word they don't know the meaning of while using an alphabet, but they can still read the word. While if you don't know the right logogram for a word, even if you know the meaning of it, you can neither write nor read it). I find the distinction even more clear-cut than imperial vs metrics, as imperial just uses very confusing conversions. Logograms are way more unnecessarily complicated. Unfortunately I could never find again this cartoon strip I saw once. A kid showing his mom "Look, I drew a butterfly" and the mom saying "Great, I'm going to add it to the dictionary" lol

Unfortunately, people need that to live.

Put up or shut up

I did not mention an ethnicity. I mentioned you, specifically.

I mentioned logograms specfically, but this made me racist toward Japanese people. So hey, congratulation, you now hate latinos.

The more i look into different languages, the more i feel different languages are just as complex as each other, with complexity put in different places

Agree you've covered some of the pros of alphabet systems and cons of logographic systems, and those are totally valid. You're neglecting the other sides though, so let's balance that out: Here's some pros of logographic systems: * Higher information density - you can say more with less, and readers can parse it faster * Compound words are intuitive - just put the symbols for the two halves of the words next to each other (or visually combine them in some cases) * Symbols have direct meaning - there is usually no "sounding out" words to figure out what they mean, the symbol by itself fully encapsulates meaning, independent of pronunciation * Because meaning is independent from phonetics, ambiguity is reduced with homophones, in that two words that *sound* the same still have two different-looking symbols * Written communication can still be understood even across different dialects, and even across different languages altogether, if the same logographic system is used, and even if those logographic symbols have different pronunciations. This separation makes it possible to communicate across language barriers *without* having to learn a whole other language. * Logographic systems don't have to adapt to changes in pronunciation over time, they're stable Here's some cons of alphabet systems: * Much lower information density takes longer to read, most people have to internally convert the visual data to sound to understand it, so it physically takes more brainpower/effort to understand written text * Wild inconsistencies in phonetics within a language, requiring rote memorization of spelling "rules" and all of their various exceptions. Makes learning new words difficult as you can't be sure if you're "sounding it out" correctly unless you've heard the spoken word * Meaning directly depends on phonetics/pronunciation, which can lead to confusion and ambiguity with alternate pronunciations, alternate spellings, and differing dialects (e.g. Canadian French vs. Metropolitan French) * Learning a language that uses an alphabet system means learning it twice - the written language *and* the spoken language * Homophones and hereronyms? Good luck Also here's some food for thought. I 100% guarantee you use a logographic system every single day, very easily, without even realizing it. In fact, nearly the whole world uses it - Arabic numerals.

They don't own "literal letters."

Legitimate use of LLM?

> That guy's comment is racist as fuck tho Chances are high they hate it because they had to learn kanji in school or for work.

Like, haskell? But why?!

That's capitalist as fuck.

I don't know about a lot of those points. I can read French quite well, but can't speak it for shit, I don't know how much I have to "convert" in my head since its phonetics are irrelevant to me (and as English became a main online language, tons of people everywhere in the world can read and write it, but not really speak it since we are all communicating primarily through text - my English pronunciation sucks btw)... but anyway, about stability and adaptation, China has 120k+ different characters in its language, the vast majority got out of use because other ways to write the same thing became more popular, so I don't think it works like you described. Have you ever heard about Paulo Freire? The guy developed a very interesting literacy method, he tested it out with adult rural workers from poor regions and in just 2 months he was able to get those people to read and write (even if with grammatical mistakes) because his method is phonetic (well, there's quite more to it, but the reading/writing part is phonetic). For learning to read/write other languages, the "no sounding out" might be an advantage (like a lot of netizens writing in English without really speaking it), but for your own language, well, from what I understand they expect that only by high school the kids in Japan and China should be able to read their local newspaper because of the amount of characters they need to know for it, meanwhile Paulo Freire got adults, who have very low mental plasticity, able to do it in 2 months...

Totally "Given these hundred fonts, create a new font like them" Voila!