ghItlhta' Kenneth Whistler:
>John Cowan ga kaita:
>
>> I realize that the 256 dot-patterns mean different things in different
>> contexts, but isn't that equally true of other scripts?
>
>That's not the issue. The point is that Braille is an artificially
>constructed system of symbols that is then used (in arbitrary and
>complex ways. granted) to represent languages.
As opposed to all of the world's other writing systems, which sprung forth
from our genetic memory and are not products of human artifice?
Exactly,
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