Re: The chimera of Ogam Consaine?

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

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.

I didn't put "without any vowels" (amazing how much ambiguity can creep into the simplest of messages)...

David B.
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