Jonathon Blake wrote:
> > And indeed, it might require the knowledge of how to link
> the capital and the small letter shapes.
>
> URLS tend to be case specific.
Yes, but the point is that keyboards tend to only have capital letters
engraved on the keys.
If someone gave you an URL such as "www.blake.com" written on a piece of
paper, you need to know that to obtain a "b" (a letter having a *single*
loop on its right-hand side) you have to press the key labeled "B" (a letter
having *two* loops on its right-hand side), and so on for all other letters.
So, a minimum of acquaintance with the Latin alphabet is definitely
necessary to use a computer, as well as to use lots of other modern devices.
Incidentally, knowing the Latin alphabet is probably required also to read
or write most major literary language used today: I very seldomly step in a
whole page on an Arabic or Chinese newspaper which doesn't contain at least
a few instances of Latin letters somewhere (acronyms, Internet addresses,
untransliterated names, etc.).
--
Marco