> (I also think that the idea of making every character
> included in a perfect square in much more satisfying
> than having variable length alphabetic words....
>
> > In the meantime, various other systems have been
> > devised more or less
> > independently: these turn out to always be syllabic.
> >
> Yes, and now we're coming back to pictograms, with no
> reference to phonetics at all (because they are
> international). I have a carboard box near me just
> now, there was a "speaker system" inside. I can see no
> less than 6 pictograms on it...
If you're reading this on a computer, close or minimize all the
windows. See all those pretty little pictures (aka icons)? Viola!
Modern pictograms. And they all fit within a perfect square. :-)
~Caleb