>On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:02:48AM -0700, John Jenkins wrote:

>Looking at the range of human
>communication, pretty much anything will work, and is being used.

but boustrophedon didn't last very long. also, people abandoned gregg and
pitman pretty fast as soon as they got a technologically superior
alternative. cheers; bill
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