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by est 5189 days ago
This looks exactly like Chinese.

Chinese people don't read line by line, they read paragraph by paragraph. Chinese has the advantage of reading very fast, and in fewer length[1]. The drawbacks however, are much larger character set (which results in higher illiteracy), and slightly slower writing speed.

But English/Romantic languages are not best suited for symbolic reading, because there are declensions. In Chinese, do-did-done are the same words. Every meaning is concluded by the context.

[1]: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/03/daily-c...

1 comments

> This looks exactly like Chinese.

Looks more like a worse version of Hangul.