Many Westerners aspire to know sinograms in some Eastern language. I started learning sinograms for Japanese when I was still a teenager. As a teenager, my thoughts about sinograms were that they were messy and antiquated. I knew that sinograms were chaotic from centuries of gradual evolution. Sinograms are best learned as a child, like bicycling. Easterners are not really more biologically inclined than Westerners for the pursuit of sinograms. The Ancient Egyptians and the Mayans had similar logographic systems. Orientals conserve their logograms, the sinograms, because of the multitudinous homonyms extant in their languages—to distinguish them. Otherwise, Orientals would have switched to phonemic writing as most ethnicities have.
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