Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
> Syllabics is outside the system because it was invented with full
> phonetic awareness ("sophisticated" grammatogeny) (Evans knew his
> Pitman; some claim that some of his shapes come from Pitman's shorthand,
> but I don't see it), but if you had to put it into one of my pigeonholes
> (shades of the engineers who were plaguing me last year!), it would sort
> of be an abugida.
Those engineers probably belong to the same tradition as I do.
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John Cowan
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