The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Not to mention it is naturally quicker and easier to write in a system you have learnt and used and practised your entire life.

Surely the Author did not devise the script in the morning and set out to transcribe the SBJ on that same afternoon.  When he started on the latter, he must have been experimenting and possibly using the script for some time.

It does not take much practice to learn to write a new alphabet as fluently as any other.  When I began learning Japanese, after a few dozen lessons I was writing the hiragana and katakana syllabics (~50 glyphs each) almost as fast as the teacher would say them.  

And it would have been much easier if I had invented the alphabets myself.  On the other hand,it would have been much harder if had chosen to study Chinese instead...

All the best, --stolfi