Re:Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results
by labster on Friday October 28, 2016 @06:00AM
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Plenty of people who use abugidas use Alphabet products too. But rest assured that people who use computers in China use pinyin input, and that is alphabetic.
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Re:Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results
by gbog on Friday October 28, 2016 @08:23PM
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Yes but no. Almost all writing systems are alphabetic, but the Chinese characters. It makes them very special and different. And China has its culture rooted in its characters. So using "alphabet" as the name of an entity with an universal reach just means the guys behind either do it by purpose or have a 25% sized blind spot.