[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agoPeople around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down16
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squarePeople around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squarebitofarambler@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-24 days agoTonal, using different tones to differentiate meaning: The car. The car? You intonate the “a” differently to denote different meaning. Logographic - picture-based writing. What if a Chinese language became the global standard rather than English, for example.
Tonal, using different tones to differentiate meaning:
The car. The car?
You intonate the “a” differently to denote different meaning.
Logographic - picture-based writing.
What if a Chinese language became the global standard rather than English, for example.