Re: The write direction (was: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info)

>Elsewhere in the same book (Language and Symbolic Systems), he says:
>"I often speculate whether an ideal writing system would not be some golden
>mean between the unwieldy thousands of arbitrary units and the paltry few
>letters of the Latin alphabet.  To make a wild guess at the optimum number
>of symbols, if we take say the geometric mean between the number of letters
>of the Latin alphabet and the number of one of the sets of basic characters
>of 1000 or 1100, it will come out to a list of roughly 170 symbols, which
>seems to be a list of manageable size."
I like this idea aesthetically, but how does one accomodate 170 symbols on a
computer keyboard? ~alypius