Western: script vs ideograms

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From: Steven Barnes <SBarnes_at_brio.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:18:15 -0700

My preference is for the Western written language to use ideograms. Not because of anything written in the sources, but because it does *not* conform to real-world analogies.

In otherwords, people are associating the west with European culture, and Kralorela with China. Therefore Kralorela (China) must use ideograms, and the West (Europe) must use a system analogous to Latin.

If we are going to steal real-world cultures, then lets mix things up more. Kralorela is just a boring China knock-off. It should have been inhabited by black people. Put the whites on the primitive jungle-continent. Put the asians in european-style cultures.

Oh well.

-steve