Re: 'Scripts' & Communications

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 01:58:09 GMT

N wrote:
>
> Written scripts have been around for well over 2000 years,
> considering the many variations of letterforms and alphabetic
> symbols developed during that time, has anybody any
> creative ideas about how an 'alphabet' may look in another
> 500 years maybe?,
> Might we be using numbers or variaties of symbols perhaps?,
> could a symbol represent a 'feeling' a opposed to a sound?
> (and if so how?)
> My other question is, if everyone in the world were to use
> the same system of graphemes to communicate their nat language,
> which existing system looks like a positive for-runner?

"Written scripts" have been around for more than 5000 years, and the
roman alphabet, the Hebrew script, and the Chinese script haven't
changed much in appearance in 2000 years -- three quarters of which, for
the first two, was without printing.

So why would an 'alphabet' look much different 500 years hence?

Few, if any, of the scripts currently in use show signs of being
abandoned by their users. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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