Re: The chimera of Ogam Consaine?

On Jul 3, 4:00 am, David B <tronospamc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Jul 2, 6:06 pm, David B <tronospamc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I had a horrible feeling I was going to have to
back up my own statements about why Semitic languages can be written
without vowels and most European languages can't.

Happily you didn't post that ridiculous claim in sci.lang, or I would
have torn it to pieces. Hint: Persian, Urdu.

Yes- I do tend to oversimplify on Usenet. And from my reluctant
acquaintance with certain monotheistic "sacred" texts in Middle-Eastern
languages I'm inclined to think that the whole idea of writing without
vowels is a recipe for disaster anyway, whatever the language.

The _only_ languages written "without vowels" were Phoenician and
Egyptian, and there were no "monotheistic 'sacred' texts" in either of
them.

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