The ancients were so wise

Walk symbol is doing the Chad Stride

Proof that ancient aliens visited our ancestors to give them advanced Brazilian butt lift technology

Only a small number of chinese characters (usually ones like these that signify basic things and concepts) are ideographs or Pictographs
Most Chinese characters are phono-semantic compounds, which are kinda a bit of a mix between phonographs and ideographs

射 (shoot) also means blast loads btw, so it belongs on the top row with poop and pee and butt

I once went to some cave with some ancient American Indian painting on it when I was in the Boy Scouts.

Some looked like dicks, and I joked with my Troop that I wonder if this "ancient sacred artifact sites" were actually just Paleo-Indian teenagers drawing dicks and asses on the cave walls while bored one night.

I think my theory still holds.

"Human nature doesn't change" is often used as a thought-terminating cliche to justify the status quo but I think this is an actual case of it
- "Teenagers be getting bored and doing shenanigans" is probably one of the safer and less harmful assumptions about human society throughout history.

Common logography W

not worth the massive L of having to memorize thousands of symbols to read anything worthwhile instead of maybe ~80, and we could get that number down too.
- I spent 7 years learning Japanese and 1 year learning Italian and I'm better at Spanish than Japanese. I have never taken Spanish.
- There is also the fact that it doesn't seem possible in such languages to have a good estimation for the pronunciation of newly-encountered 'words' (lexemes? I don't remember linguistics well enough to be precise and accurate here) without looking it up or asking about it.
- not worth the massive L of having to trawl through books to learn anything worthwhile when chatGPT can tell you what you want to know in ~80 words, and we could get that number down too