Right, I didn’t say we should. I was giving two separate hypotheticals. First, what would have happened if the Roman empire hadn’t unified the alphabet of Europ

Right, I didn’t say we should. I was giving two separate hypotheticals. First, what would have happened if the Roman empire hadn’t unified the alphabet of Europe? We might still write English with a runic alphabet, which would mean you could no longer have typeset English with the letterforms you’d cast for, say, French. Second, what would have happened if European scripts were not typically alphabetic, but instead logographic/semantophonetic? Would the printing press have been adopted so quickly?