Re: 'Scripts' & Communications

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

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 11:36:25 GMT

Lassi Hippeläinen wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
> <...>
> > 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.
>
> More fonts have been developed during this computer graphics era than
> during the millennia preceding it. So who knows...

And no one, especially a computer, can tell you exactly what makes an
<A> an "A." But the forms ain't changing. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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