“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved

Re:“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved by Ericson2314 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:53PM (#25588685)

While we are continuing this chain of pedantry, few characters are in fact ideographic. Mainly the the oldest ones. Most are "Phono-semantic" i.e. a combination of "sounds like this, but means like this".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...

BTW I recall later Egyption hieroglyphs were not strictly ideographic either, leading up to the Phonetician alphabet. I wonder how similar that process was.

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Re:“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved by cyphar on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:00PM (#25600730)

GP probably meant logographic rather than ideographic (and kanji are a logographic writing system), because they were making a comparison to phonographic writing systems.

I imagine most non-linguist nerds (myself included) would confuse the distinction between logographic writing systems and ideographs.

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