Instead having words, we should have symbols.

benfits will be

1.) quicker to read
2.) Learning will be much easier

Yeah, but the spoken variant would be a pain in the ass to get the same message across. It would take just as long to say "Circle, squiggly line, cross, dash, up arrow" as it would to say "Dude, the NWO is coming to kick your ass". Besides, doesn't a new language sound sort of Orwellian, kind of 1984-ish?

Originally posted by Thinker
Instead having words, we should have symbols.

benfits will be

1.) quicker to read
2.) Learning will be much easier

Well, it's been tried before, hasn't it Thinker eg hieroglyphs and pictograms being two that readily come to mind?

I personally feel 26 characters - in our western alphabet - do quite a good job already. Imagine having to memorise all the different signs that would be needed - I'm not sure how that would make learning easier?

I agree with Genya. It would be like an english speaking person trying to learn an Asian language with all of the different character sets and pronunciations for each character. It's not an easy task to learn it, especially comparing a 26 character set to a 100+character set. Now imagine trying to learn all the characters for all the words that exist in the language, we're talking literally millions of characters.

Thanx kz!!

Just doing a bit of searching and found this, to put it into context:

"The Chinese pictographic system requires some 3000 characters for ordinary personal and business correspondence, and twice this number for the more erudite, in contrast the English orthographic system requires only about 60 or so, which includes upper and lower case characters, punctuation, and special symbols."

Hope that helps? What say you Thinker?