. Quoting from FER-DE-LANCE by Rex Stout © 1934: "... Not as big as the Barstows', the house was brand-new, wood with panels and a high steep slate roof, one of the styles that I lumped all together and called Queen William."
Although that unification might seem horrific to an architect, it suits Archie (the protagonist/narrator of the Nero Wolfe stories) just fine. When technical people make distinctions, others are free to lump things together to suit themselves. Whatever works. If things are lumped together by technicians, however, anyone needing to make distinctions fights an uphill battle. If the scripts under consideration are unified, anyone needing or wishing to preserve distinctions for these various related writing systems loses. Especially in plain text. But, if these scripts aren't unified, scholars could continue to transliterate inscriptions as they see fit. And, people who like to make distinctions are enabled to do so. Nobody loses. So, if the scripts retain their disunification according to the current Road Map projections, people could either like it or lump it. Seasons greetings, James Kass .
