Re: Non-linear full-2d writing (again)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 29, 2006, 8:09 |
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:58:37 -0500, Jefferson Wilson
<jeffwilson63@...> wrote:
> However, the problem is not with any particular term, it's with the
> whole phrase "arbitrary degree of branching." An "arbitrary
> temperature" is any temperature at a particular location. An "arbitrary
> degree of temperature" is meaningless since once you have a degree it is
> no longer arbitrary. In just that manner, "arbitrary degree of
> branching" is meaningless, which is why I need for it to be defined.
How about "a degree of branching subject to whim"? That agrees with your
stated definition of "arbitrary". The implication of the phrase is clear:
it seems possible to define (there's that word again, but without it, it's
all a singularity) a writing system where any number of branches may be
possible for some given grapheme. I don't know where this space-filling
stuff came from, to be honest. I rather feel it may be some form of boojum.
Paul
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