--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "John H. Jenkins" <jenkins@...> wrote:

>
> ©ó Jul 9, 2004 2:27 PM ®É¡APeter T. Daniels ´£¨ì¡G
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> >
> > Why couldn't it simply have said "logographic" instead of
> > "ideographic"?
> >
>
> *sigh* Down this road we've been before. Because in the IT

industry

> the term "ideographic" was already well-entrenched.

I seem to remember that the term ideographic has an authentic user-
chosen origin. What I can't figure out is how Indic scripts came to
be called what they are instead of Aksharamala. The other term has
to be defined anyway, not that anyone can get it intuitively. Lets
define Aksharamala instead. No extra verbiage needed. Ask someone
from India what they would choose.

Suzanne

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