The Human Dream: Unified Language
Why is there a huge gap between the Arab region, Russia and the West, and wars are frequent?
The Arabic alphabet is the only one in the world that is written from right to left, and Russia is one of the very few countries in Europe that does not use the Latin alphabet, so there are few translators and communication is difficult.
After the bloody "World War II", the whole world had a strong desire for a unified language, setting off a "Esperanto" craze, and various countries spent huge sums of money, and at most tens of millions of people participated!However, now there are no new people to join, which has dealt a heavy blow to the dream of reunification.
Numbers, formulas, units, partial punctuation, and icons have become used all over the world and have made great contributions to human communication.
So, how can other scripts be reformed in order to unify the world?Let's start with the outbreak of Chinese characters.
Miracles of Chinese characters
China's GDP from 1980 to 2021An increase of 93 times, nearly 3 times that of the 2nd place in the world!
What's even more amazing is that the per capita GDP growth rate from 1960 to 2021,The top 6 are all areas where kanji is used!The remaining 7-117 students do not use Chinese characters. (Due to incomplete data for small regions, only the top 117 regions in terms of population are counted).
If this is a coincidence, the probability of 6 out of 117 is 13.1 billion!
You might say: Korean is rarely used in Chinese characters!In fact, in the 70s, when Korea was the fastest-growing period, Chinese characters were popular. Vietnam and North Korea, which forcibly stopped using Chinese characters in the 40s, are far behind in terms of growth.
Why did Chinese characters break out?
Chinese characters are complex in shape, difficult and slow to write. However, printing, the Internet, and smart typing have drastically reduced the frequency of writing.
In the early (approaching 0%) and late (approaching 100%), the absolute gap between the literacy rate of Chinese characters and phonetic characters was very small, and in the mid-17th and 19th centuries, when the West surpassed China. The rise of Japan is between the West and China, which coincides with the fact that Japanese characters are "kanji + phonetic characters".
1. Fast thinking
Chinese characters are more like graphics, making it easier to get rid of language and activate graphic thinking.
The top 6 IQ in the world are also the 6 major Chinese character areas!
2. Read fast
First, Chinese characters are rich in shape and have high visual density;
Second, it is easier to get rid of the reading Xi habit of "silent reading" than phonetic characters.
3. Speak fast
Chinese is a "polyphonic", so the pronunciation is short.
4. Easy to create new words
First, Chinese is short and easy to combine;
Second, you can extract words to form new words, such as: live broadcast (direct, broadcast).
5. Cross-language, the largest population, and low cost of information sharing
Hieroglyphs are more easily shared by neighboring languages and therefore more easily expanded, making Chinese the most native speaker, nearly three times larger than Spanish, the second place. The advantage of a large population is that there are more users of the work and more choices for users.
Phonetic characters (English, etc.) are associated with languages, and the human speed of speech has not changed for 100,000 years, and the efficiency of language has not improved much.
Chinese characters are mainly related to graphics, and the efficiency of graphic production has skyrocketed with technology, and the advantages of Chinese characters have intensified.
Language decline
Historically, the share of language in communication has been gradually replaced by words and graphics.
There are even words that have gotten rid of language-
Punctuation marks can be left unpronounced: ().
Symbols such as numbers can be pronounced in different languages: 123%.
1. Slow reception and thinking
The optic nerve of the human being is 7,600 times that of hearing, so "seeing" is much faster than "hearing". There are so many brain cells associated with the optic nerve that "graphic thinking" is much faster than "verbal thinking". Unfortunately, our Xi language for abstract thinking leads to the failure of most brain cells to activate deeply. For example, if a master of mental arithmetic can be thousands of times faster, he uses graphical mental arithmetic.
2. Rigidity and confusion
Languages come from various primitive tribes, and after an ape-man accidentally agrees on the pronunciation of a certain word, the new word can only choose the remaining pronunciation. As new words continue to stack, old words are locked in layers. As a result, the language is stale, rigid, confusing and bloated. Even if the artificial "Esperanto" cuts the chaos, it will still add new chaos.
The pronunciation of core words has not changed for 100,000 years, making it impossible for various languages to integrate, and small languages have become extinct one after another, developing towards "only one language left".
1. The advantage of convenience is weakening
Language comes when you open your mouth, and words need tools. However, the tools of writing have evolved from sticks and dirt to computers, and in the future, computers can be hidden in glasses or fingernails. Typing is the ability to move virtual shapes floating around your fingers, which is as convenient as speaking.
2. Express quickly - about to be reversed
In the past, speaking was faster than writing and typing. However, as sensors become more accurate and convenient, the joints of the whole body can be used to type at the same time, theoretically speeding up typing by hundreds of millions of times.
Think about it, you can speak for 1,000 seconds, type for 5 seconds, and read for 1 second
Musk predicted: "In a few years, humans will be able to communicate non-verbally!".He fantasizes about capturing thoughts in brain waves, and even if he succeeds, the content of the thoughts is sensory information. Therefore, visual information (83% of the senses) has to replace language.
There is a huge amount of redundant information in the vision, so it is still necessary to take advantage of the abstraction and combination of words, and the new text has no language constraints and will return to the natural graphic words.
Graphic words
So, how do you communicate with graphic words?We tried to explore, and we were pleasantly surprised.
The graphics are flexible and free, and a certain detail (glyphs, word formations, grammar, etc.) is designed to make the most sense, and it will become popular all over the world. In this way, there is not only the opportunity to innovate and evolve, but also to be relatively unified.
There are millions of words, and if they are all illustrated, the shapes will be very complex, difficult to recognize and remember, so the meaning of the words must be split.
After splitting, only a few hundred graphic words are needed, so the illustration is concise.
Using combined expressions, the meaning of words is clearer and more accurate, for example, "uncle" will be confused with uncle in foreign languages, while "mother tongue + brother" is very accurate.
Instead of going from left to right or top to bottom, you can capture critical information on a full page.
A child, the illiterate, can learn it, too.
For example, enter "mother" on your phone. Find "People" (noun is in the middle finger area) first, press and hold it to display the subordinate interface of "People", and click "Mother" with the other finger.
Above the traditional word, the picture is automatically matched according to the word, and it is placed side by side in 2 lines, (You can also add the whole sentence with a picture, into 3 lines side by side). Click on the picture or word to check the explanation.
Side-by-side advantages:
1. Immediately be able to read the documents of various languages and dynasties, and compare the translationsCloser to the original, more accurate.
2. Picture and word superposition to increase the overall recognitionRead faster
You don't need to specialize in drawingWhen you look at the words, you can gradually become familiar with the pictures.
4. I didn't learn the graphics input methodType as usual, the program automatically matches the picture, and it can directly communicate across borders.
Implement side-by-side, just agree and add the corresponding procedures. However, because it is too subversive, domestic propaganda has been fruitless for many years, or because the advantages of Chinese characters are too great, China's motivation for change is insufficient.
Japan is the first to change
Reason 1: It has long been adapted to the side-by-side of two rows
In Japanese, there are sometimes phonetic accents above the kanji, and "shape + sound" is also side by side.
Reason 2: Graphic thinking is the world's first
The Kanji area ranks among the top six in the world in terms of IQ, but Japan ranks first. The reason is that some Japanese kanji are polysyllabic, and the phonetic bias of kanji is invalid, which makes it easier for Japanese to get rid of the habit of silent recitation and activate Xi graphic thinking. The proof is that Japan has the world's largest usage rate of manga, anime, and graphics.
Reason 3: Strong willingness to change
1. Inefficient reading
Japanese is a mixture of characters, with uneven visual density, resulting in slow reading, as evidenced by the fact that Japanese books are the smallest in the world. The influence of the information age has intensified, or is it the culprit of Japan's stagnation in the past 30 years?
2. The population is limited
Japanese has a smaller population than Chinese, is not as popular as English, and is more expensive to share information.
Conclusion
Graphic words are a brand new explorationYour opinion is urgently neededYour likes**It may allow China to take the lead in implementation.
No matter which country tries first, it will be exploring the way for the common dream of mankind.
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