THESE two words are probably unknown by the new generations nowadays. Although it is very weird to understand why they disappeared in a short time. I think they were very important inventions of the human history. Thier importance have not yet well understood.
STENOGRAPHY was invented to
write faster than the existing alphabet and traditional calligraphy.
But writing with 10 fingers on a keyboard now has taken its place. Although the world record for stenography is 375 wpm which is not reachable by typing on a keyboard.
Why the world did not opt for changing their writing characters on stenography is enigmatic. Keeping very old traditions like Hebrew, Sanskrit, Chinese and Arabic characters are just unnecessary conservativeness.
The most disturbing part of such writing methods is that you need to memorize more characters and words. For instance vowelize in Hebrew by different type of punctuation which is not written in modern Hebrew and also in Arabic is making more difficult to learn the language and to understand.
ESPERANTO is a new language
which was created by L. Zamenhof – a Polish ophthalmologist in 1887. Different
languages have different properties. For instance I know that in French and in
Hebrew like many other popular languages words have gender. Quite nonsensical
but a door is “feminine” but a bank is
“masculine” . On the contrary in Turkish or in English words do not have any
gender and we do not feel any necessity for it.
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