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Which led to a lot of historical weirdness, like what happened when Japan just adopted hanzi (kanji) wholesale even though Japanese isn't even *related* to Chinese, at all It's like a Monty Python joke (it's spelled "Luxury Yacht" but pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove")
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But like you can imagine that if the Latin alphabet didn't have letters correspond to specific sounds, "spelling" could've been "frozen" a lot longer and more dramatically "It's spelled 'Iacobus' but it's pronounced 'Jimmy'"
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Totally. I'm familiar with a few basic meanings of some Chinese logograms because I studied a bit of Japanese, but I can't pronounce them. The upside being that sound change doesn't render a logographic language obsolete so quickly
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I've always wanted to thought experiment write English logographically in Chinese characters.
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The thing the kids do these days where you use emoji as a rebus takes you halfway there
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