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trochee ([personal profile] trochee) wrote2004-03-22 10:15 am

Logograph soup

What would alphabet soup look like in Arabic? What about Chinese? ASL? Braille?

There's a business idea for free from [livejournal.com profile] exterra. [She thinks Braille would be better as crackers than soup.]

[identity profile] epanastatis.livejournal.com 2004-03-22 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The problem with Arabic is that letters change shape based upon their position in a word, and the words are written cursively, and the appearance varies widely according to script. I don't think it could be pulled off.