On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Ayers, Mike wrote:
> This, however, is absurd - one of those 1,000,000 words is
> "antidisestablishmentarianism", and there's a whole bunch half that long or
> longer. Show me the glyphs for them! This NEC thingy may make cute artsy
> stuff, but it would be useless for communication. Besides, does anyone
> really believe that alphabetic writers would decide that they'd rather learn
> thousands of glyphs? We're getting deeply fictional here...
Not to mention the controversy there'd be about unifying the glyphs for
"colour/color" etc.
;-)
-- Daniel Biddle <deltab@osian.net>
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