Re: Optimum number of symbols

Raymond Brown writes:
 > At 8:21 pm -0700 20/5/02, Jim Grossmann wrote:
 > [snip]
 > >create anything half as beautiful as Chinese characters or Egyptian
 > >hieroglyphs.  However, when it comes to esthetics, the cuneiform scripts
 > >give me hope.
 >
 > Yes, I've always entertained the idea at the back of my mind of using some
 > sort of cuneiform script at sometime. Cuneiform scripts were around for
 > well over three thousand years and were used for a variety of systems, so
 > there must've been something going for them.
 >
Wouldn't that be "the use of clay tablets as a medium for writing"?
Cuneiform's great for that, but possibly not so good for other media,
where you're drawing lines rather then imprinting them.

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