>I suspect you have never studied Chinese (or in my case, Japanese).
>The writing system is very impractical compared to the latin alphabet,
>and painfully hard to learn (for non-Chinese anyway). When you go
>beyond simple characters (man, eye, tree, etc), the ideographic
>meaning becomes totally lost.
Thats why its ideographic not pictographic.
Compare Gloranthan runes - it looks like a spiders web - oh, Fate,
of course.
Cheers
David