The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[kckluge]

I think you're misreading Rene's use of "forced" there. He's not using it in the sense of "someone put a gun (or crossbow :->) to their head", he's using it (I think) in the sense of "none of the Jesuits (say) who worked up Romanization schemes for tonal Asian languages found the Latin alphabet so inadequate for the purpose that they were motivated to invent a new script."

By the way, welcome back.

I think you mixed our names up but if I read this right yes, that's what I meant.

Oops...mea culpa.