於 Jul 14, 2004 7:06 PM 時,suzmccarth 提到:

> Considering how Cree is coded and used, the Unicode manual might best
> leave out the term abugida for Cree.

Forgive me, but where does Unicode use the term abugida for Cree? I
just checked and couldn't find it…

Meanwhile, I agree here with Prof. Daniels: Technical terminology
intended for scholars shouldn't have to make obvious sense to the
average man on the street. (I once ran across a book called _Repeal
Kepler's Laws_ in which the author spends the entire book complaining
that mathematicians say a circle is just an ellipse with the two foci
at the same place.)

You're persistently assuming that (a) the *coding* practice of the
Unicode standard should reflect linguistic theory, and (b) that both
the Unicode standard and linguistic theory should make sense to the
average "man in the street." Neither assumption is correct.

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