+1 Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 08:41, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > Michael Everson scripsit: > > > I'd like to invite everyone to support this worthwhile project: > > Worthwhile it may be, but surely misinformed as well. Does Mr. Brooks > actually suppose that fifteen to twenty million Khmers are going to > abandon their native language, or cease to write it, or switch en masse > to Latin script? Yet he lists it as one of the "Endangered Alphabets" > at http://www.endangeredalphabets.com . > > # Writing has become so dominated by a small number of global cultures > # that those 6,000-7,000 languages are written in fewer than 100 > # alphabets. > > Most of them aren't written at all. Indeed, I'd guess that the number > of written languages is higher today than it's ever been. > > # Moreover, at least a third of the world's remaining alphabets are > # endangered -- no longer taught in schools, no longer used for commerce > # or government, understood only by a few elders, restricted to a few > # monasteries or used only in ceremonial documents, magic spells, or > # secret love letters. > > This is very misleading. Most of the restricted-use scripts have never > been general-purpose scripts. > > -- > A witness cannot give evidence of his John Cowan > age unless he can remember being born. co...@ccil.org > --Judge Blagden http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > >
