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keithjl | 2 years ago

The Korean graphic designer Ahn Sang Soo played around with linearizing the alphabet: https://www.we-find-wildness.com/2011/05/ahn-sang-soo/img_00...

What's nice is that it's immediately legible if you already know how to read, but you also realize how inherently slower it is. One of the nicest parts of Korean (and other east asian languages) is that each block is always a single syllable.

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posterboy|2 years ago

I'm not sure if that's inherent.

One problem is that Korean syllable structure is not as easy as one os lead to believe, from what I heard. And whether syllable is a meaningful unit is debatable.