From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 08:41:05 CDT
Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
> Well, Klingon has been rejected, but Deseret and Shavian have been
> encoded although I am unaware of any non-fantasy use of these scripts,
> and Tengwar and Cirth, which are certainly fantasy scripts, are
> roadmapped.
Deseret was a very serious attempt to replace the Latin script with
something deemed more suitable for writing English. It was used in
government documents, newspapers, and all sorts of serious contexts.
It happens not to have caught on, and is now relegated to use only by
hobbyists and a few researchers, but in no sense does that make it a
"fantasy script."
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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