No actual writing system employs one strategy exclusively.

A whole new writing system -unbelievablestuff.

Elm is a combination mailbox and letter- writing system that uses menus to help you navigate through mail.

But I suspect, if we knew it well enough, we could record this conversation in the heptapod writing system.

Given a writing system that works well for one language, how do you devise a system for a different language?

Yet the ancient Maya devised a writing system and were to create the most complex culture in the New World.

That's the function of many signs of Chinese writing and of the predominant Japanese writing system (termed kanji).

Lisette Wesseling explores Louis Braille's adaptation of his six-dot reading and writing system for the blind to represent the language of music.

We need a better grasp on this writing system before we begin anything else, I said, and then smiled when he mimed frustration.

Gutenberg's press, however, was well suited to the European writing system, and its development was heavily influenced by the area from which it came.

After studying logic, symbology, and ancient alphabets, graphic artist George Suhayda, senior art director Marty Kline, and company contrived a complex 3-D writing system.

Now the team is closing in on what might be a writing system so unusual that it remained hidden for centuries in plain sight.

By contrast, the music discussed in Japrocksampler has made almost no impact outside Japan, partly owing to the barrier of an undecodably alien writing system.

I've intentionally termed these three approaches strategies rather than writing systems.

According to William O'Grady, one language with just 60 speakers has four competing writing systems.

Let's now examine how blueprint copying and idea diffusion contributed to the spread of writing systems.