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Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce

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Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I actually ran into someone on Reddit who thought we should embrace it. They might be here too, I don't know.

How would one go about making a "font" that looks like the bonus panel? It's harder to learn all the logographs but you can fit a lot of information on a page that way.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

just learn chinese

To answer your question: You'd have to have ligatures for every single word in existence so that is not possible.

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder what character set would work best for writing the English language. I'm legitimately thinking Korean could handle it better than the latin alphabet

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, can you expand on that a bit? I don't really know how Korean writing works.