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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've talked about this before but a logographic lingua franca has a lot of potential to create text that is legible in any language. 1000 years ago, the Chinese writing system was used all across East Asia and you didn't even have to know the spoken Chinese language to read it, even though the sentence order could be totally different.

There are definitely a lot of problems with this idea but I think the positives outweigh the negatives. (And of course, everybody should also keep their own language's writing system. You could write in a logographic lingua franca if you were expecting to communicate with people who don't speak your language.)