Peter T. Daniels <grammatim at worldnet dot att dot net> wrote:

>> So you think that a Hebrew Genesis when unpointed is an abjad, but
>> that a Hebrew Genesis pointed is no longer an abjad, but has become
>> an alphabet?
>
> No, a text isn't any sort of writing system.
>
> The former is written with an abjad, the latter with an alphabet.

This was where I fell off the trolley, when it turned out that a single
script could be one type of writing system or another depending on how
it was used. At that point I knew the thing being discussed was not of
practical use to me.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/