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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by innocenat on Sunday April 15, 2018 @08:21PM (#16845831)
You mean apart from thousand years of history/records and billions of users?
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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by on_and_off on Sunday April 15, 2018 @08:59PM (#16845970)
I mean like Hangul
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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by lifthrasiir on Sunday April 15, 2018 @10:45PM (#16846336)
Hangul was possible because it explicitly targeted a single unified language (Korean was politically unified since circa 900 and the language was stuck).
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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by innocenat on Sunday April 15, 2018 @09:09PM (#16846023)
And Hangul was also developed long time ago. And Korean(s) has way less users than Chinese.
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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by brandmeyer on Sunday April 15, 2018 @09:57PM (#16846192)
Why should the number of users matter? The work factor per person is the same no matter how many people there are.
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