Sociological Linguistics

Nik Taylor fortytwo at ufl.edu
Thu May 27 20:51:36 UTC 1999


"Brian M. Scott" wrote:
> Moreover, you are confusing two
> completely different (and often roughly complementary) things: the
> amount of ingenuity needed to develop a system, and the ease and
> simplicity of its use.

I'd say it's just a matter of definition.  Alphabets are certainly very
sophisticated, and quite complicated in origin, but very simple (and
flexible) in use, while logographic systems are very unsophisticated,
quite simple in origin (relatively speaking), but very complex in use.

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