At 07:43 -0500 2003-12-14, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>John Jenkins wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 13, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Patrick Chew wrote:
>>
>> > At 10:45 AM 12/13/2003, John Jenkins wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> Nah. I think I dislike the term "logogram" about as much as Peter
>> >> dislikes "ideograph."
>> >> (This is one of the many reasons why Unicode sticks with "ideograph."
>> >> It doesn't favor one nomenclature or another because everybody hates
>> >> it.)
>> >
>> > heh.. if that's the case, I think I'll start using
>> > "Han-eme"...
>> >
>> > Han-graph???
>> >
>>
>> Be Latin. Sinogram.
>
>Be non-jargon-laden. Character.

We have enough trouble discussing things when we can't agree what
"writing system" and "script" mean. "Character" is far too overloaded!
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