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Except Chinese is too hard for the world to learn, particularly in a technical context where it’s about the written form. Any logographic will have the same fate. This means it’ll end up staying within China and they’ll have a hard time globally.


Historically speaking, the countries around China started using their written characters even when they didn't adopt the language. This is one of the benefits of nonphonemic script. Certainly emoji seemed to gain broad acceptance very quickly.




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