>Let's assume that Western is some form of ideographic script (I favor
>something more like hieroglyphics than Chinese, but maybe old Chinese is
>OK).
Hieroglyphics are not examples of an ideographic script. Most of them are used to spell out words in a manner similar to the alphabet.
>(Note of course that, like Japanese, Western could have both a proper
>ideographic system, and a katakana-like system for representing barbaric
>sounds.)
In which case the Brithini would not be using this katakanasque script and thus we would have a visible distinction between the Brithini writing and the writing of most Malkioni.
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