Another Short History of Linguistics (9)

The writing symbol in pictogram is developed step by step, but in alphabetic language is stayed in ancient time.

The more ‘C’ is not for the necessary of complicating for a language but for the writing tool changed and for good looking.

So if you are the language designer, you will take responsibility to everything. Or we may say, you are the beginner of a new system, any small mistake will cause the problem of billions people. Do you care about after you died, day and night, billions of people complain at your tomb? Another question is that did the ancient Phoenician had ever thought about this issue, if not, how can we say their invention is an absolutely positive one? So I think most people understand a language by first sight and feeling not by scientific analysis. Especially some big politic figures.

Combining three of such symbols could be thousands symbols that is to say, the strokes of Chinese characters are far beyond necessary. Above discussion is for us to understand that it is very important to choose the basic element of a writing system. A better system would save tremendous work, energy and time for the later user.

Now let’s check about the pronunciation system. It is the same thing the BCS is one sound that is either a vowel or a CV is qualified as the BCS. Of course for the phonetic system of a certain language the, greater the number of phonetic species the better. Just think about a language had 400 basic species of sound, one day they find a new one, then how many two sound’s combination this new sound can make? According the formula (a+b)²=a²+2ab+b², let the b=1 then the new combination would be 2x400x1+1=800, that is only one new sound is found, what about one hundred new sound is found? So either for writing symbol or species of sound, the more of the BCS the better.