Logographic

This system he called logographic printing, -- logographic being a combination of two Greek words signifying word-writing. ❋ James Parton (1856)

The perfect book or speech obeys in every respect the pure and merciless laws of what has been called logographic necessity. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)

Such writing is "logographic" (symbols for words), and doesn't give the reader information on how to speak it, which is itself a great benefit, for then even people who speak different languages can utilize the same writing system and be able to communicate via it. ❋ Mark Changizi (2010)

Displays on alphabetic and logographic writing systems. ❋ Post (2010)

Compare for example, our alphabetic scripts against the logographic picture style of the Chinese. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus Sumerian logographic signs, if used in Akkadian, would not convey the same exact meaning, while the same sign could, depending upon context, mean different words, a linguistic trait known as polyvalency. ❋ John Connolly (2010)

Omniglot is an interesting site about writing systems, which it classifies in alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, and alternative systems describing real and fictitious languages. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What is a logographic or non-logographic writing system? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of the languages I know written in non-logographic writing systems, English has by far the most difficult spelling. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The San Andrés researchers believe these symbols represent words or ideas and reflect the first stages of logographic writing. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the history of civilization, three types of systems have been invented for relating a visual symbol to language content: an alphabet (as in English), a phonetic system (as in Japanese kana), and a logographic system (as in Chinese). ❋ BERND SCHMITT (1997)

But though the logographic printing was a failure, the "Daily Universal Register" proved more and more successful. ❋ James Parton (1856)

The newspaper had some little success from the beginning; but the logographic printing system would not work. ❋ James Parton (1856)