
…ographic and phonetic symbols, which helps when encountering a new symbol you’ve never seen before. (Many foreign language learners believe most Chinese characters are pictographic, because those are the easiest to teach, but the true number is closer to 5%. Roughly 12% are ideograms, another form of logographic communication, and the final 80% are semantic-phonetic symbols, which means they combine a logographic and phonetic element.) That’s what cuneiform did, too.
I hate labels — unless they are on canned goods. There’s nothing worse than needing a can of corn for homemade salsa and opening up a can of lima beans instead. That’s what happens when you’re babysitting poorly and the object of your babysitting duties pulls …