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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:06AM (#35663836)
It's not like the Chinese didn't know about alphabetic scripts. Alphabets predate Chinese writing.

Chinese is written the way it is for roughly the same reasons why English doesn't use phonetic spelling.

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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by paulusthe on Saturday April 22, 2023 @10:25AM (#35666882)
Alphabets do not predate Chinese writing. L
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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:02AM (#35687786)
"Chinese writing" is clerical script and later. That's like a full 1000 years after the first Semitic scripts.
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