Despite popular demand, I have another Thought to throw into the
discussion about the written form of Western. One advantage to an
alphabetic script is that it's better at "spelling out" foreign words
and names than an ideographic script would be. (Naturally this requires
that a "phonetic" reading of such be possible, whether or not the script
is normally read strictly phoneticly.) Not very much use to the
"unchanging" Brithini of course, but damn handy if you're (say) a God
Learner, and you have to write down the name of Thunder Brother #1 in
your paper to appear in that upcoming conference in sunny Umathela on
Minor Storm Deities.
Of course, this is entirely Post Hoc reasoning, as it was obviously
not _designed_ with this use in mind, but a relevant point
nonetheless. (At least in my own mind.)
Slainte,
Alex.