From: "Miikka-Markus Alhonen"
> What about "a script that was invented by one person with the principal
> intention of representing an artificially constructed language"?
Stefan Persson replied
> > > Can you prove that this doesn't apply to any of the scripts
> > > already in the
> > > Standard? No, you can't, as it is not known under which circumstances
> > > Latin, Greek, Kanji, etc., were created.
Tighten up the definition of an "artificially constructed language" to
be one that has never had native speakers, and you're there. Separate
the evolution of the spoken language from the evolution of the script.
-- Andy Heninger
heninger@us.ibm.com
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