Why do the Japanese and Chinese use symbols like these? Would it be impossible to write their languages if they used a normal alphabet?
But they can already write their languages with a normal alphabet, it's called pinyin
>>60259069
It only worked for Vietnamese
>>60259069
Japanese don't use pinyin, you dumb fuck
>>60259069
Then why don't they use those instead of their confangled moon runes?
>>60259375
Because Chinese characters are infinitely more efficient than writing the language in some confounded latin alphabet that is only good for kdis when learning Chinese and faggot foreigners who are too dumb to learn anything.
>>60259355
I know pinyin is Chinese, whatever it's called in japanese I don't care
>>60259375
Why are murricans so dumb?
word sense disambiguation, faggot
>>60259375
Too many homonyms
>>60259637
>>60259710
They manage to live with these homonyms in the spoken language, why would they be a problem in the written one?
I think it's more about traditions and culture than about practical reasons.
>>60260401
You can hear the person's voice and intonation when talking to them, you're also in the same circumstance so there's context. If you just read some random sentence written in pinyin filled with homonyms, you'd have no fucking idea what's going on.
>>60260401
http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/stonelion.php
Which is easier to read (for a Chinese person)? Hieroglyphs are more specific and contain visual clues about the meaning, pinyin doesn't
>>60259710
kek
>>60258771
because these characters carry much more information than simple alphabet.
information per character:
most dense Chinese
2nd Japanese
3rd Korean
4th Urdu
