On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 06:57:22PM -0400, Doug Franklin scripsit:
> Graydon wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 06:18:49PM -0400, Doug Franklin scripsit:
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> So runes won't do, we want to see some haiku.
>>> Runic haiku.
>>
>> ᛁᛏ᛫ᛋᚺᚩᚢᛚᛞ᛫ᛒᛖ᛫ᛞᚱᛟᛏᛏᚳᚫᛏᛏ᛫ᚹᛁᚦ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ᛬

"It should be dróttkvætt with runes."

> Five runes, seven runes, five runes.

Runes are phonetic, not ideographic!

Runes are just a family of alphabets that have fallen into general
disuse; they're not conceptually different from the latin characters
we're all used to using.

-- Graydon

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