Re: What works

John Jenkins wrote:

>>> In the case of Deseret, there are no descenders or ascenders. Except
>>> when a word is capitalized, each word is rectangular, which makes it
>>> hard to distinguish words without parsing them.
>>
>> This is the same flaw as Cyrillic has, isn't it? And Cyrillic's one of
>> the world's four large 'international' scripts (Chinese, Latin,
>> Cyrillic and Arabic).
>
> And, of course, Chinese has the same problem, as do Hebrew et al. I
> think this is just my bias as a Latin reader showing through.

I can read English in ALL UPPERCASE LATIN just fine, although somewhat slower
than mixed-case. I attribute my relatively slow reading of Cyrillic and Deseret
to a relative lack of experience (compared to Latin), rather than to the scripts
being "unusable" due to a lack of ascenders and descenders.

-Doug