william bright wrote:

>
> >On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:02:48AM -0700, John Jenkins wrote:
>
> >Looking at the range of human
> >communication, pretty much anything will work, and is being used.
>
> but boustrophedon didn't last very long. also, people abandoned gregg and
> pitman pretty fast as soon as they got a technologically superior
> alternative. cheers; bill

People abandoned _shorthand_ when the alternative came along. It doesn't
mean Gregg or Pitman was faulty!
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...