Steven Barnes:
>
> >But Kralorelan writing isn't weird and impractical.
> >It is the spoken language which is described as elegant,
> >but I hardly think that an impractical writing system
> >would be used by the large and complex imperial bureaucracy.
>
> Maybe I just don't understand how impractical Aztec writing is,
> compared to Chinese...
>
> 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).
Then again, Kralorelan writing doesn't have to be
anything like chinese...
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