Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > (b) I'm sick and tired of people demonstrating "how hard it
> > is to read" vowelless English by leaving off an aleph-like
> > marker from vowel-initial words.
> >
> > When you use that example in your textbook, make it
> >
> > " 's ths Ltn wrtng 'n 'bjd? "
>
> Perhaps the second element of the diphthong in "writing" should be spelled
> out as if it were a semivowel:
>
> " 's ths Ltn wrytng 'n 'bjd? "
>
> But, then, is it still an abjad if it has matres lectionis?

It's moving away from abjadicity.
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