Michael Everson scripsit:
> >The key point here is that the relative positions of certain letters
> >encodes something, which is certainly not typical of an alphabet.
>
> Why not? It's a shape.
It's just not normal in an alphabetic script for there to be a
difference encoded by the relative positions of two letters. A
relative position is not a "shape". (Obviously, this is false
in the extreme case: "AB" is distinct from "BA".)
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