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The pragmatic nature of the script
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08-02-2017, 08:23 PM
Quote:Glagolithic was an invented alphabet. 9th century, wasn't it? Yes, but it was script invented to write natural language. Quote:Yet other scripts, designed from the ground up, did not have this consideration, as discussed above. As you say, Quote:They are like this because they weren't designed to encode an entire book, only phrases or even words. |
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