What is the latest point at which Romance-speaking Europe might have IDed as speaking one language?

What’s being confused here is that Classical Chinese isn’t a script, it’s a language (or more technically a literary register of Old Chinese). No speaker of any Chinese language, even when fully literate in their native language, could have understood CC perfectly without learning it in school for the past dozen centuries.

It’s like saying that the “Latin script” allowed medieval Christians to understand each other; it’s not thanks to the Latin alphabet, it’s thanks to the Latin language.

Interesting, this whole time I thought Chinese characters were more about ideas that meant different things based on their context. So long as the ideas were the same the same characters would be used (that was my understanding).

I learn something new every day.
 
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