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Revision as of 11:46, 14 May 2025
Definition
Written language is a system of communication that uses visual symbols — such as letters, characters, or marks — to represent the sounds, words, or ideas of a spoken language. It allows information to be recorded, shared across distance, and preserved over time, independent of the speaker or listener being physically present.
Improvements from spoken language
- Idea is independent of their original host thus, ideas can even survive if the host dies.
- Allows ideas to travel to be transmitted to places where the speaker can't.
- Doesn't require the host to shout or speak or travel to transmit the ideas.
- Allows ideas to be broadcasted to a much larger audience than through speaking.
Benefits
- Allows ideas to become fixed and immune to change.
- Allows easy shipment of ideas to distant lands.
- The medium through which it is passed (i.e. Books) tend to not go bad easily.
Tips
- Try to keep your language syllabic(A system where each symbol represents an entire syllable) rather than alphabetic(A system where each symbol represents a single sound).
- Keep the symbols easy to write.
- Keep the characters consistent. Example: If you have a character that looks like horn, don't assign it to goat.
- Introduce effective punctuation to break sentence and make it easier to read and write