Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> Because "logographic" is a term everyone is familiar with, and

"Ideographic" is even more familiar (which is why Unicode uses it),
if we are to abandon etymology altogether.

> "morphographic" isn't, and I don't really feel like trying to explain
> "morpheme" to people who haven't had at least a year of linguistics.

Why, that's easy: it's the semantic (as opposed to graphic or
phonological) sense of zi4. Wuddaya mean zi4 isn't familiar? A billion
people know just what it means!

--
John Cowan cowan@... www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
Rather than making ill-conceived suggestions for improvement based on
uninformed guesses about established conventions in a field of study with
which familiarity is limited, it is sometimes better to stick to merely
observing the usage and listening to the explanations offered, inserting
only questions as needed to fill in gaps in understanding. --Peter Constable