TIL a Chinese linguist created an entire 97 word essay using the same word, “shi”, only varying in tones, to prove why Chinese needs to be written using logograms and not phoenetically via /r/todayilearned

TIL a Chinese linguist created an entire 97 word essay using the same word, “shi”, only varying in tones, to prove why Chinese needs to be written using logograms and not phoenetically
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Submitted July 08, 2017 at 04:34AM by Reacher-Said-Nothing
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