Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> Doesn't look like common sense to me to say that Arabic is a subset of
> Urdu.

More precisely: the collection of characters used to write Arabic is
a subset of the collection used to write Urdu.

> Is Latin a subset of English?

Aren't rhetorical questions better if they are on point?

> > To write the word Urdu, you write ALEF
> > REH DAL WAW.
>
> To write the word corvus, do you write Cee Oh Ar Vee You Ess? No, you
> don't.

I certainly do. The word "cee" is the name for the letter "C", so when
I say I write cee, I mean that I write "c". I don't write "Cee Oh Ar
Vee You Ess" to write "corvus", to be sure.

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