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I want a tattoo. Is there anEgyptian logogram (hieroglyph)that means "hope"?
I was thinking about Chinese as well. My best friend has recently stopped talking to me, and all I have left is hope that we will some day resume our friendship. I am confused as to what the best Chinese translation for this particular type of hope might be (
Use Virtual Eygpt's Hieroglyphic Translator-type in "hope" as your Pharaoh name.
what would written englishlook like if we used alogogram-like alphabet(likethe chinese one)but stillused?
the latin alphabet
You would have to deconstruct the alphabets. Then reconstruct every word we know from hologlyphs and it would look.........Korean. kidding.
Why are logograms (Symbolsused to represent word) betterthan alphabets or syllabaries(a syllable alphabet)?
Why are logograms (Symbols used to represent word) better than alphabets or syllabaries (a letter for each syllable)?
In my opinion, they aren't, an alphabetic script is best. However, in favour of logograms you could say that they enable people to communicate who don't speak a mutually comprehensible language. The best example would be numbers, so that 1 + 1 = 2 means exactly the same thing to me, you, and someone who speaks only Russian, even though the Russian speaker would not say "one plus one equals two".
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