"Ernest Cline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In dubious hopes of ending this argument, let me offer up the following > thought experiment. Normal Latin script, Gaelic, and Fraktur while they > have all diverged to a certain extent, have not diverged to the point > where additions made to one of them is unimplementable on the other. > To wit, altho the various hooked, curled, and barred letters added to > the normal Latin script to accommodate other languages could be > implemented in Gaelic or Fraktur. LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CURL > would look peculiar in Gaelic, but it looks peculiar in normal Latin too, > and it would be distinctively recognizable as such to anyone who > knew both Gaelic and normal Latin.
I don't buy it. If you are creative enough, of course you can add new letters to any script. I could add LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CURL to Arabic, too. On the flip side, there are many Latin letters that don't fit with all Latin fonts. When U-breve was written in Sutterlin, it was effectively unified with U. When IPA tap is written in my personal handwritting, it's unified with r. Many fonts write i and g like dotless i and script g. As is, many Latin letters require a specialized font to distinguish between other Latin letters. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
