I think these characters you have caught in de la Parra (as reported by Brinton)
can best be left on the side-tracks for a while. Two reasons:
1.They are not in use in current (and official and Maya-themselves-endorsed)
Maya orthographies, and there is no pressing need for them. Their importa
And isn't W a vowel in English too? As in the word "few"?
And even Websters 9th Collegiate (the closest dictionary I can pick up with one
hand) lists "cwm" and "crwth" -- which have w as their only vowel.
Phwl
On the issue of color [sorry] as a distinctive feature of graphemes I
thought there was an Ethiopic example, a punctuation character which required
both black and red pieces, that settled this question. (I can't get at
reference sources to look this up right now though.)
And Maya hieroglyp
If a book is to be published, "Every Character Has a Story" is not the title to
make us all rich. What about: "The Dark Underside of Unicode"? That leaves us
room for at least two sequels: "Darker" and "Darkest."
Phil
Alain AND Everybody:
Some minds just can't deal with logic, much less logical operators.
Once upon a time, I had the job of trying to make a colonel in the U.S. Army
sound literate. (I was drafted.) I soon found out that progress would be made
only one tiny step at a time, if at all.
My firs
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