I wasn’t talking about the American mind, I was talking about different alphabets, as you rightly guessed, Nimis. For example, this little game would not function at all in Chinese.
It probably would not work in Hebrew either because, well actually come to think of it, because they already do a similar thing in Hebrew, and if it was taken any further, it would be impossible. Reading Hebrew is like reading licenseplates. They don’t tell you what the vowels are. You just have to figure it out the same way we were all able to figure out what Nimis’s original question was.
When I was talking about fluency, I was saying you couldn’t play the game in a language you’re not fluent in, which is one reason some people find it so damn hard to learn Hebrew.