Re: Graphemes defined

Michael Everson wrote:

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> At 13:32 -0400 2004-05-10, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> ><a> is a grapheme, and <A> is a grapheme? How do you capture the
> >relationship between them?
>
> Um, size and shape?

Diachronically, we happen to understand the size-and-shape relation
between the two glyphs, but what place does that have in a synchronic
analysis? The two glyphs resemble each other in neither size nor shape,
any more than they resemble this or that other glyph in the set.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...