1. Hieroglyphics are pictures that if even one line is out of place makes it a completely different word whereas in the English language it is not a bad as say you left an apostrophe out of the word can't you have cant and you read it the same way but you know hat they meant to say. 2. the hieroglyphs stand for letters, syllables and sometimes whole words.3. the <span>hieroglyphics have several variations whereas English has only English, so you wont get as confused to what a certain culture meant when they wrote it.</span>