Yes, of course that is what I meant. Sorry if anyone was confused. In a message dated 2001-10-11 8:55:22 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Doug Ewell wrote... > > > Cyrillic was created as a better way to write Slavic languages, Russian in > > particular. Shavian and Deseret were created as better ways to write > > English. The former met with overwhelming success, the latter did not > > It's usual to bind "former" and "latter" to the closest preceeding pair of > items, which led me to think you were talking of Shavian versus Deseret, > and that was moderately confusing. Shavian certainly can't be counted an > overwhelming success when compared to Deseret... > > In case anyone else is boggled... "Former" actually refers to Cyrillic and > "latter" to Shavian and Deseret together. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
