If a language imposes too many inflections on a signifier stem
--That's one side of the spectrum.
If another, on the contrary, fixes a character's form, forbidding
any transformation,
--That's the other side of the spectrum.
From a viewpoint of language evolution, it seems highly metamorphous
Indo-European languages have moved toward the middle--So the simulacrum
system as in Chinese character is more evolution advanced?
But Chinese, except for the strokes and lines in single font, which had
undergone change maybe for aesthetic sense, until the Communist China
proposed the simplified system.
Maybe just a coincidence, in modern society, it's not easy to show online
old Chinese character's form.....while English can, at least for a much
larger part of human history, after the alphabet system appeared.
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