Re: Names in a non-linear full-2d writing system

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> Most certainly, I would not want the Roman script as its conventions for
> phoneticizing the script are so diverse. It would indeed be very perverse
> to transpose names normally written in a different script into Roman to be
> used in an otherwise non-linear semasiographic 2d script. Of course, one
> could simply keep the way the name is written in the person's L1 - Chinese
> & Arabic names would then 'automatically' create their own logogram  :)
I'd contend that many westerners' signatures are logograms already. :)

                                           Andreas