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just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space (each character occupies a square, and has complex meaning of a word, and people read their shapes, rather than stroke by stroke )



But dots are more compact than strokes.


Strokes allow for much more graceful degradation when you have to use a pen and paper.


I think a key point of the language is that it points toward machine-reproduced printing and display only. Writing can still be Chinese, English or any other language. But for in-place printed labeling or digital display, something like this might be interesting.


>just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space ...

[cite needed][original research?]


Well, for example, per Google Translate

Automobile

汽车

Reading chinese is basically the human version of attempting to read a .zip file.


It occurs to me that the suggestion is actually interesting from an information theoretic standpoint. I understand that Chinese as a language is relatively "telegraphic" to start with. Is there a quantifiable difference with English writing? How much is the language and how much the writing system?




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