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Contents 1 Written versus spoken language 2 ASL 3 Most Efficient Writing Style 4 Diglossia

[edit] Written versus spoken language

Written language is a language whose words and sentences are written in paper instead of being spoken: strange thing, makes the distinction written/spoken appear as strong as the difference between spoken languages, which doesn't look right. So IMO this article should be reworked (and renamed) or deleted. --FvdP 20:50 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I think I fixed your concern. I made a (too?) strong statement about the absence of purely written languages. If anyone has any credible source to discount please let me know.

--Selket 05:38, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ASL

Isn't using ASL as an example of a language with a written complement a bit misleading? Is there a standard written form of ASL? If no-one objects I'll delete this from the page. thefamouseccles 07:41, 10 Mar 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Most Efficient Writing Style

Does anyone know what the most efficient/advanced writing system/language is? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.205.122.30 (talk) 21:29, 18 August 2007

If you mean pen and ink writing on paper with the fewest number of strokes, then shorthand is the most efficient. If you broaden it to mean any method of printing human speech on paper, then a computer speech recognition system that prints out what you say in a microphone is the most efficient, although the error rate is high. Greensburger 20:48, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diglossia

"However, such diglossia is often considered as one between literary language and other registers, especially if the writing system reflects its pronunciation."

I'd like to help this sentence, but I don't know what it means. "One" is probably "one diglossia"; but "however" suggests a contrast with what precedes it, and I don't see any contrast; and I can't imagine what it could be saying that could be affected in any way by whether or not the writing system reflects its pronunciation. Can anyone suggest what point this sentence is trying to make? Pi zero (talk) 23:44, 3 August 2008 (UTC)