estutweh@aussie.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · vor 9 MonatenDo languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareParagone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·vor 1 MonatA language’s script MUST be engineered to communicate ALL the required-dimensions of that language. There is no exception to that, that I can imagine. IF tonal, THEN tonality MUST be indicated… simple principle, right? in the cases of the Semitic languages, which leave-out vowels, their intent was to lock-out outsiders. NOT-communicating with others, was part of the intent. & … well, that’s their right, but it’s created problems… Not just the obious-ones: When you force a population more-completely into memorization-paradigm, you make thinking-paradigm less-default ( the 2 modes compete for brain-resources: culturally, pick 1, & let the other be secondary ) So, the Semitic languages with the left-out defaults pushed memorization more heavily, & … that affects/alters/shapes history! ALL language-choices have consequences… ( I’d actually want the ideal-culture to have at-least 5 different languages, simultaneously, by default: Engineering / English or German social-relativism / Japanese Indigenous-perspective/understanding, / probably Maya? scripture, origins / Sanskrit ( language-of-origins, not language-of-effects/symptoms, multiple people fluent in it have agreed ) programming / Haskell ( get people to think correctly! ) emotion / Arabic math something like that… Just switch languages/modes, to communicate within that-language’s domain. _ /\ _
A language’s script MUST be engineered to communicate ALL the required-dimensions of that language.
There is no exception to that, that I can imagine.
IF tonal, THEN tonality MUST be indicated…
simple principle, right?
in the cases of the Semitic languages, which leave-out vowels, their intent was to lock-out outsiders.
NOT-communicating with others, was part of the intent.
& … well, that’s their right, but it’s created problems…
Not just the obious-ones:
When you force a population more-completely into memorization-paradigm, you make thinking-paradigm less-default
( the 2 modes compete for brain-resources: culturally, pick 1, & let the other be secondary )
So, the Semitic languages with the left-out defaults pushed memorization more heavily,
& … that affects/alters/shapes history!
ALL language-choices have consequences…
( I’d actually want the ideal-culture to have at-least 5 different languages, simultaneously, by default:
something like that…
Just switch languages/modes, to communicate within that-language’s domain.
_ /\ _