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Re: Mandombe

From:Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 21:00
on 1/9/07 11:44 AM, Philip Newton at philip.newton@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> Someone recently brought Mandombe ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandombe ) to my attention. > > Wow, how's that for a writing system. And apparently it's really in > use. (I wonder how dyslexics cope.)
You wonder how dyslexics cope??? Sacre merdre! Normal people I think would be hard pressed to discern the differences 'tween so many lil box-like shapes in a row. Why those shapes? is my question. Is it somehow related to some kinda Afrocentricist concept an/or African art? -- Hanuman Zhang
> Verbing weirds language.