Re: Conlang T-shirt, was: Re: London Boink: minutes (fwd)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 6:23 |
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > I doubt it, especially since none of the other nat-scripts is
> > alphabetic.
>
> Well, considering that the concept of the alphabet was only invented
> once, there's really no way of knowing what factors could be involved in
> the evolution of an alphabetic script.
>
Perhaps it is significant that the alphabet was invented only once,
while a lot more scripts at least started out as logographic (even
though styles differed significantly).
Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt