What is "false"? The article doesn't mention the word "copyright" at all.

I routinely use mdashes. What is your operating system?

the Committee saw no pressure to introduce a phonetic system for Mandarin

This is particularly interesting to me: where did you get this?

Thanks for the thorough comment.

Easy/hard in which aspect? And how do we even measure it?

I'm confused as to if you read the article, since you point out Chinese characters later. Did you?

Similarly, Cherokee syllabary and Hangul for Korean. The former was even created by someone who was himself illiterate!

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Did you downvote this submission? If so, why?

Did you downvote this submission? If so, why?

I'm not sure what you mean, but there are a lot of variable fonts where you have multiple axes by which you can customize a character. If you wanted to use CSS, you could modify each individual character in a text along an indefinite number of axes. E.g. see https://v-fonts.com/

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Nuclear war?

If you want to have a discussion about a topic it is your responsibility to provide a quick summary of the topic in order to set expectations about the subject.

It is not.

you decided to throw a hissy fit

I did not.

post the article without the paywall

I will not.

appology

apology

If you want to post a top-level comment, you should read the article first. If you don't want to read the article, then you don't have to comment here. The goal of posting this article is to discuss this article, not what you made of someone else's summary of an article or general thoughts about the sorts of themes that could be present in an article you didn't read or whatever: that is not productive or useful conversation. If there's a thread on a topic where you don't know about the topic, you can choose to skip it. You also can read this article and claiming that you can't is just disingenuous. You don't want to pay what it costs, which is fine, but it's not like it's unreadable to you: you're choosing to not read it.

I am not new and your answer was inadequate. It is perfectly fine for me to want to talk about a book without giving you a free copy of the book: you can just move on and not talk about it if you are unwilling to buy it. I can talk about movies without buying you a ticket or a foreign place without buying you a plane ride. You are not owed a free copy of someone else's work and "paywall" is an entitled non-comment that does not add to discussion. If you can't even be bothered to use a complete sentence, you definitely do epitomize a certain approach on the modern web. You will have to deal with the fact that some things cost money.

That does not answer my question.

Sorry if my comment implied otherwise, that was not my goal.

Not at all. Your comment was completely appropriate and also welcome. Thanks for your context and furthering the conversation meaningfully.

Okay. What conversation do you expect to come from this one-word comment?

Sure, and I will grant you this is a little linguistics-adjacent, just like the other post I just made. "Linguistics" as a field is not just anything that is kind of about language, but emphasizing the continuity between other animals and their ability to communicate in something similar to, but distinct from the arbitrary and basically infinitely large ability that humans have to use language proper is pretty fascinating and important work.

Thanks.

pseudoscience

Where are you getting this information?