Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??

"Jens" == Jens S Larsen <jens_s_larsen@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Jens> I guess it boils down to the question whether there can be a
Jens> direct link from ideas to writing:

Jens> ideas -> writing

Jens> or if language has to be inserted in the line:

Jens> ideas -> language -> writing.

Any kind of notation (if we want to avoid calling it "writing") needs
to have certain rules governing it. (Otherwise, how can you interpret
it unambigously?)

And unfortunately, whatever such rules are, PTD is going to call them
"a language".



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