Re: Terms "constructed script", "invented script"

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 08:54:19 EDT


At 01:54 -0400 2001-07-07, DougEwell2@cs.com wrote:

>As we have been saying, all scripts are created by humans; none are
>"natural" in the sense that they sprout from the ground or wash up
>on the shore.

Ursula Le Guin has a wonderful short story called "Texts", about
reading the text found in the foam on the shoreline, and reading all
kinds of other things. My copy was published in the Portland, Oregon
newspaper on 1990-05-27. I don't know if it's been published
elsewhere.

-- 
Michael Everson



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