Re: Scripts

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 19:14:45 +0200 Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> Well, my absolute favourite is and stays the Tibetan script. I also
> like the
> Arabic script and the Devanagari. Among alphabets, my favourite is
> the the
> Irish Uncial alphabet, which is the main inspiration for the
> alphabet of Maggel.
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A few people have mentioned Devanagari so far, so i'd just like to
mention that until i met someone who's literate in Bengali (another Indic
script which i can't tell the difference between), i always assumed that
Devanagari and the similar-looking scripts with lines along their upper
edges go Right to Left.  But then i found out that they go Left to Right.
 Am i the only one who thinks that they look like they should be going
the opposite direction?

Also, a while ago i worked in an immigration lawyer's office.  I saw that
when forms are filled out in those line-along-the-top alphabets, they use
"fill in the blank" lines as in "Name: ____________" as a guideline for
writing the line-along-the-top, and not as a baseline the way users of
Latin alphabets would.  If i remember correctly, the Hebrew scribed on
Torah scrolls is also written suspended from the guidelines.


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disaster, Iceland's attempt to preserve its meager topsoil by consuming
its lambs before they consume Iceland is surely the tastiest...."
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