On 11/13/2001 07:12:29 AM "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
>Maybe you can "classify" writing systems without using the category.
>Fine! But if your "classification" doesn't note that Korean is
>qualitatively different from all the others, then it's missing
>something.
I certainly want to point out the qualitative differences, but I also want
to compare apples and apples, and I also want to point out any significant
similarities, if they exist. And where I am pointing out differences, I
was to be able to state explicitly what those differences are.
- Peter
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