At 19:19 -0400 2003-09-15, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>>
>> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> > Then perhaps the engineers ought to look at the real world
>> > sometime. You could call the overall thing the "Islamic
>> > script," for instance.
>>
>> Hmmm... I proposed that term to my friend Yusuf, a communist militant born
>> from Egyptian Christian parents, and it took me my best karate move to calm
>> him down.
>
>A Copt, and he preferred "Arabic"?

Why not, Peter? The script is essentially Arabic. See the chart on
page 89 of your book, in the chapter "Epigraphic Semitic Scripts".
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