There are kids who taught themselves to read more or less

China would literally be better off using logograms

And yeah it's not as effective as being educated properly

holograms

But you'd be surprised at the gaps the human brain can fill with intuitive learning

what do you mean not as effective?

you cant teach yourself to read without at least learning the phonetic alphabet

Like broken and poor grammar

Awful handwriting

Etc

Bad handwriting is hard to read

Self taught can often result in gaps as well

Still communication though

no, you dont need the phonetic alphabet

It's not standardized or modern

But hey

you need to know the phonetic alphabet to be able to teach yourself to read

just being around people who read stuff and you will pick it up fairly quicklly

Luci seems to think peasants were literally cavemen

at least, i did

no what i mean is

letters are scribbles

unless you know how each one sounds

you literally cannot decipher them

Modern isn't standardized either, one spelling : one word is not a good ratio

Association though

and spelling was very unstandardized back then as well

ah, right, i thought you meant THE phonetic alphabet

there is no association

you can see scribbles

Yes there is

1 character = 1 word is efficient in its own right

but until you understand what sound each letters make

These people aren't living in a vacuum

you cant decipher them

Or more so phrase

They'd still be exposed on occasion to merchants, priests, lords, writings

The thing is that you only need a few words to get the gist

It's like background radiation

You pick and patch it up it's how the human brain works

no i mean