(2016-03-07, 4:46 pm)sholum Wrote: Binary. It'd give people a writing system that's actually worth complaining about.
Or, even better, the wave pattern of a word in Japanese; that way, you'd get the pitch accent in there too, so no one can complain about there being too many homonyms. No mathematical models allowed (it wouldn't really be a new writing system then), everyone will just have to get really good at squiggling on very long pieces of paper and get used to handling scrolls again.
Perhaps multiple bases could be used to represent katakana, hiragana and kanji separately. For example, バカ騒ぎ could be:
278 78 AA330116 1910