At 08:03 -0600 2001-11-09, Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>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.

Daniels means, I think that the alphabetic concept can be called "THE
alphabet". This is different from how we think of it in encoding.
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