Dear Peter
I will easily admit that this thread is way beyond my understanding,
but as a child looking up at the sky and asking why it is blue I do
have a question about this.
I recently attended a Korean typographer's lecture where he mentioned
that pictographic symbols would be altered based on where the tongue
was placed when it made the sound.
Am I reading your response wrong?
Gerald
>
> No. There is no writing system that has structural units that correspond
> to points of articulation, air mechanisms, etc. Something like that would
> be theoretically possible but incredibly inefficient to read or write.
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> - Peter