CHINESE CHARACTERSFULL OF CHARACTER, AND THEY WORK! BUT ALSO OVERLY

COMPLEX, INEFFICIENT, ARCANE, AND ANTIQUATED.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS

ARTISTIC, AND SHINING WITH A SPECIAL LIGHT, BUT OVERLY COMPLEX, INEFFICIENT, AND DEFUNCT.

NEO-IDEOGRAMS: MODERN, EFFICIENT, MAKE SENSETranscription: Do what you can to create better ways of thinking clearly. Explore and observe the results of your effort. I guess I’ll never stop using them. Stupid or brilliant, they are certainly different.

EFFICIENCY (EASINESS):

• Use contemporary images from everyday life (pictorial if possible)

• Use “indicators” and dots are other marks• The more common the word, the simpler the

id (a rule of thumb)• Use alphabet for word endings, like hiragana

is used with kanji in Japanese• Prefer ids with immediate direct

emotional/semantic impact