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by Timwi 496 days ago
One of my favorite single pages on the web is this author’s take on what it would look like if English were spelled with characters inspired by (but not copied from) Chinese hanzi. He calls it yingzi (“English writing” in Chinese) but it's designed entirely for English. The point of the page is not to create a new writing system (it doesn't go nearly that far) but simply to give an impression of what Chinese writing is actually like and what effect it has had on its speakers’ perception of their own language. Give it a read, it's super fascinating.

https://zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm

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Cockney rhyming slang as one of the pillars for an English writing system. This is fascinating in so many ways.