At 13:56 +0100 2003-12-12, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>Michael Everson wrote:
>> No, they [katakana and hiragana] are two different syllabaries. The have
>> the same structure, different glyphs, and are not interchangeable. Texts
>> can be written in either for specific effects. They're two scripts.
>
>Let's make the following three substitutions in your passage above:
>
>- "katakana" -> "lowercase letters"
>- "hiragana" -> "uppercase letters"
>- "syllabaries" -> "alphabets"
>
>We have just asserted that English is written with two different alphabetic
>scripts.

I do not agree that lowercase letters and uppercase letters are two
different alphabets.

>Deny this, and you deny your assertion above; defend that, and you are also
>saying that English uses two alphabets.

I think your analogy is false. I THINK YOUR ANALOGY IS FALSE.

;-)
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