At 10:03 -0600 2001-11-09, David Starner wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:58:30AM +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
>> Actually, some for scripts in the ConScript Registry did find that
>> there was sufficient reason to encode them. Deseret is the best
>> example; Shavian may be a bit dodgy but it satisfied the committees
>
>I'm curious; why is Deseret a better example than Shavian? Is it because
>of brief historical use?

Its briefness was less brief than Shavian's, and it was used in more books.
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