Re: Appearance of Ethiopic script

Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> It seems that the appearance of many scripts is influenced by the nature
> of the traditional tools used to write them, and sometimes the nature of
> the surface on which they were written. Surely Ethiopic has a distinctive
> appearance, so my question is, what influenced its look? Perhaps a special
> kind of pen tip? Maybe just "evolved visual tradition", to try to coin a
> term?

Amateurs are always claiming it looks like Armenian. It just means the
breadth of the pen is held almost fully horizontal.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...