Fair. And yes, there is a requirement that "usage" be by a sufficiently
large group of people and not just a pair of pen-pals, etc, and it
should be more than endless educational material, etc. But I think
that's a little different from saying that "topic X doesn't count as
important usage." (it's different when topic X is the script itself,
nothing but talking about itself.)
~mark
On 5/31/26 1:27 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
Second of all, since when are we in the business of critiquing the
*content* of what people choose to write? Do we insist on a certain
base level of sophistication of literature?
SEW and UTC do tend to require that a proposal to add a script include examples
of text written in that script, not just a list of letters, and usually not
just written by the script’s creator. So there is at least some judgment
applied to the scope of use of the script. Whether that extends to scripts
invented for fantasy, which are then used to write content unrelated to that
fantasy environment, is a finer question that only they could answer.
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Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
