Doug Ewell wrote: > Sampo has just articulated my favorite argument about so-called > "artificial" scripts. All writing systems are created by man; they do > not occur in nature, like mountains and trees and cats, [...]
O, no! At least one of them has a (super)natural origin: CJK ideographs came carved on the shell of a gigantic turtle which appeared in dream to Cang Jie. :-) > "The Gothic script was devised in the fourth century by the Gothic > bishop, Wulfila (311-383 CE), [...] Despite his Germanic name, I think he was a Greek. > [...] The chief manuscript, kept at Uppsala, is the Codex > Argenteus [...] Apart Paul's Epistles, which are here in Milan. _ Marco
