What are the advantages of logographic script over a phonetic one.

>>3034374
>phonetic
Where? No such thing - and no, before retards claim that their language's use of the latin script is phonetic, it is not, you dumb cunts.

English alphabet is basically a typically-predictable logography.

>>3034374
You could publish a single newspaper for a multilingual audience. Look at China.

>>3034385
>A language's orthography must 100% correspond with its phonology to be considered phonemic
Retard

>>3034385
>Nonphonemic = logographic

logographs can be read more quickly. they take a hell of a lot longer to learn than phonetic strings

>>3034374
Ideograms are perfect for an empire, because they can be read from any language, but also because they are a kind of esoteric language in itself.
Phonograms are better for large scale education on the other hand, and for learning in general.

>>3034374
literally none. It's terrible.

>>3034374
Idioms and figures of speech become even more impossible to understand. That's what made Chinese impossible for me to read, anyway. How the fuck was I supposed to know "Iron Rooster" was a train?

>>3034374
Chinese speaker here. Chinese is not (purely) logographic; most characters are phonetic.

Example: 六 is a picture of a hut, but it means (because it's pronounced the same as) "six."

Other example: 唐, 糖, 塘, 瑭 are all pronounced the same.

>>3034374
It allowed for denser writing.

Basically, it makes it easier to make books before the printing press is developed, and much harder afterwards.

Logographic writing isn't easier/faster to read though. People who read phonetic writing don't spell out the words in their head unless it's a word they don't use often or haven't seen before. It's why you can switch the letters between the first and last in a word and people will still know what word it is. This is because people remember the "shape" of the words they read/write commonly just like in logographic systems, meaning they read just as fast. The real difference is that when a phonetic user sees a new word he has the ability to spell it out or even divine it's meaning through its etymological similarities to other words. Meanwhile if a logographic user finds a new symbol they are out of luck.