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Re: new script based on german stenography

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, August 13, 2004, 16:43
J. 'Mach' Wust scripsit:

> However, this script isn't > a syllabary. It definitly is an alphabetic script in the broader sense of > that term, though I can't tell whether it's an alphabet in the narrower > sense, an abugida, or an abjad.
It doesn't really fit into any of these classifications; as Daniels has said many times, the products of what he calls "sophisticated grammatogeny" don't necessarily fit his schema very well or even at all. This includes both Canadian Syllabics and Hangeul. -- Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor tidings sent from far John Cowan coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that www.ccil.org/~cowan O'Hare Doctor in heaven was. Sad was the man that word www.reutershealth.com to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful. All jcowan@reutershealth.com she there told him, ruing death for friend so young, algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay. Ulysses, "Oxen"