An important difference is that English lets you get your point across even if you mess up word order, conjugation, and/or spelling. With logographic systems, t

An important difference is that English lets you get your point across even if you mess up word order, conjugation, and/or spelling. With logographic systems, there is practically no connection between written symbols and their sounds. Even competent writers can know what a symbol means, but not know how to pronounce it. Or they'll be able to use a word in speech, but not be able to write it down. The first time I saw this happen with native Mandarin speakers, I thought they were playing a joke on me. The main advantage of logographic languages is written information density. If you've ever seen a Chinese or Japanese copy of a Harry Potter book, you'll understand. (They're quite thin.) Also, Twitter is a totally different experience when using hanzi or kanji. The character limit is enough for a paragraph instead of a sentence.