Doug Ewell wrote:

>
> 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.

Then don't think of consonantal Hebrew and vocalized Hebrew as a single
script!

The terminology isn't meant to be of "practical" use to anyone (as I
have been saying for weeks now).
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...