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written lenguages that use symbols for sound instead of symbols for object and ideas are easier to use because
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Having symbols for sounds instead of objects is more flexible - it means that you can make up a new word for a new object (such as a laptop, something unheard of a generation ago) without having to make up a new symbol. Plus it allows writers to make up new words, such as Lewis Carroll who made up words like runcible. If he'd had to make up a symbol for that word, no-one would have known how to say it.
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