Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 10:30 -0400 2005-08-31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > I think that any Vai who wants to use a computer will have to learn
> >> to read an alphabet, and pretending that this is not true is just
> >> plain silly.
> >
> >Yet you deny you're a cultural imperialist.
>
> I'm a realist, and I am not responsible for the position of the
> English in the world's computing market. If you are happier believing
> that Vais who want to use computers won't have to learn to read an
> alphabet in addition to Vai, well, dream on.
>
> >At least by now you seem to be tacitly admitting that the "alphabet"
> >might be the Arabic one.
>
> None of my Vai informants ever talked about Arabic. Should it become
> a requirement such a keyboard could be developed. I would wager,
> though, that the overwhelming number of keyboards in Libera are

Maybe Muslim Liberians didn't have the luxury of travel to Ireland.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...