The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Grove]

Learning to read and write Chinese is simplified by strict stroke order that means every time you write a character, you write it the same way and memorize it along with muscle memory. I can’t think it would make sense to invent your own personal script unless you might be trying to obscure the fact that it’s Chinese.

Oddly, when I first started contributing to discussions in 1997, it was with my own tonal system based on i and e repetition and vowels determined by final strokes. I was clearly hoping for a natural language with an unknown script at that time.