On 11/09/2001 07:11:04 AM "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>Of course. See any history of THE alphabet.
>
>(I mean, obviously, it was only invented once.)
So was the automobile, but that doesn't mean they're all the same. People
who presume that primates evolved from a single source wouldn't say
they're all the same. To say that these are not different scripts in need
of classification is simply silly.
- Peter
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