Re: Bopomofo keyboards in Taiwan

Michael Everson wrote:

> Not at all. The writing system is what it is. If you had
> voice-activated input, the "nature of the writing system" would not
> change. If you click a glyph palette with

That's the second time in a day you've simply stopped in the middle of a
sentence.

> >English is an official langauge of India and 10% are literate in English.
>
> And anyone who drives in India knows how to read street signs.

Street signs are in the local language and script. If they _also_ have
an English line, it's for non-locals. (Unlike in Ireland, the
_non_-English part of the road sign is the useful part.) And what
percentage of Indians do you suppose drive?

> >I do know about the Ethiopic keyboard. However, Ethiopic is a
> >very regular alphasyllabary/abugida, not really comparable with
> >Vai.
>
> I disagree.

Then you're simply wrong.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...