Ogham (was RE: What is this list? -- 2nd installment)

From: Marco Cimarosti
Message: 125
Date: 2000-11-03

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> (...) However, your characters are far, far too similar in
> appearance to each other to constitute a practical script.
> (That's the other main objection to the winning entry for
> Shaw Alphabet, too.)

The shapes of Doug's scripts reminds me of Ogham, somehow.

Was Ogham very difficult to read because of its uniformity?

BTW, did it exist a literature in Ogham (I mean books, poems, etc.), or is
it only attested in short stone inscriptions?

_ Marco

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