Re: scripts page

At 08:36 -0400 2003-09-15, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Then perhaps the engineers ought to look at the real world sometime. You
>could call the overall thing the "Islamic script," for instance.

Your own book has a chapter called "Arabic writing" not "Islamic
writing" and "Adaptations of Arabic script" not "Adaptations of
Islamic script".

> > By the above definitions, it is the English alphabet which is a subset of
> > the Latin script:
>
>Nope; English has j, v, and w, Latin doesn't.

So what? There are many extensions to the Latin script. Thorn is one.
Eng is another.

>You could call the overall thing the "Roman script," for instance.

That term was not chosen because it is more commonly used as a style
distinction: Roman vs Italic.

>It's not English, it's Latin. Latin doesn't distinguish u and v, so you
>would probably say Ca O Er U U Es.

CE, not CA. CA = K.
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