In a message dated 2001-07-07 9:30:56 Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>  Cherokee is another syllabary that is very language-specific. And Etruscan 
>  was pretty much forced into an alphabet--with its long consonant clusters, 
>  a syllabary would have been unwieldy.

Another example is Canadian Syllabics.  VERY difficult to write English using 
that script.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California

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