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| ▲ | mbs159 a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Western writing has a very small character set If you include all of the Latin-script characters, Cyrillic, Greek, accent symbols and ligatures, you'd have over 300 characters, and that is a very conservative estimate |
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| ▲ | UncleMeat 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press This is vastly overstated. This was a widely popularized idea in the west but has largely been debunked by more recent scholarship that is less interested in demonstrating the superiority of the west. |
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| ▲ | adrianN 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Do you have links to relevant research? | | |
| ▲ | UncleMeat 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Tom Mullaney at Stanford has a good book on chinese typewriters (this narrative is usually presented against both printing presses and typewriters) and is a good entrance into the intersection of chinese script and technology. History research is typically published in books rather than papers, so it isn't content I can link to directly. |
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| ▲ | Nicook 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| this is why Mesopotamian and Egyptian writing are upstream of so much. |
