From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 1857
Date: 2003-12-12
>For the 23 zillionth time, define "script."
> At 12:52 +0100 2003-12-12, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> >Michael Everson wrote:
> >> Katakana is not an italic font variant of Hiragana. The two are not
> >> interchangeable.
> >
> >Sure. But neither it is the Greggs shorthand of hiragana.
>
> No, they are two different syllabaries. The have the same structure,
> different glyphs, and are not interchangeable. Texts can be written
> in either for specific effects. They're two scripts.