On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:34 am, Mikhail V wrote: > Ok, in this narrow context I can also agree. > But in slightly wider context that phrase may sound almost like: > "neither geometrical shape is better than the other as a basis > for a wheel. If you have polygonal wheels, they are still called wheels."
I'm not talking about wheels, I'm talking about writing systems which are fundamentally collections of arbitrary shapes. There's nothing about the sound of "f" that looks like the letter "f". But since you mentioned non-circular wheels, such things do exist, and are still called "wheels" (or "gears", which is a kind of specialised wheel). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ937593 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-circular_gear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk7s4PfvCZg -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
