I wholeheartedly agree with the point Dman makes, but I just want to clear up a couple of inconsistencies about his writeup here. I would just message him but he hasn't logged in for over a year. While I'm at it I'll comment on the other writeups as well...
- The Chinese script does not lack phonetic elements. Most Chinese characters consist of at least a radical and a phonetic element. It is true, however, that the sounds of this element and the character containing it have diverged in many cases.
- Neither Gutenburg nor the Chinese invented printing, it was invented by the Koreans.
- Zarkonnen comments that Arabic script is almost impossible to typeset merely because it is a cursive script. This is utterly untrue and Arabic script in several languages has been typed and typeset for many many years. Some languages, partiularly Urdu, prefer the nastaliq script which is difficult to typeset but most others use naskh which has no such problem.