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Comment on People 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.

Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Considering Korea looked at the nightmare that was chinese and invented their own language to get their people literate… I am not sure it would ever work to be the default languages.

People will always simplify for people to learn and use, wince language is very important for transferring knowledge.

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Eh, you don’t need to simplify it down so much.

I mean Simplified Chinese was just slightly altered and it retained most of how it looks and I mean, a population of 1.4 billion? And like nearly all the younger generations are literate.

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