Complex sentence: The canonical acrophony is an ideographic or pictographic writing system, where the letter's name and glyph both represent the same thing or concept-if e.g. the letter A in English, named "axe", was in the form of an axe.
Split into simpler sentences: The canonical acrophony is an ideographic or pictographic writing system, where the letter's name and glyph both represent the same thing or concept. This would be true in English if, for example, the letter A, named "axe", was in the form of an axe.