<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>March 21, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>Stephen Slevinski wrote:<BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT size="3"><I style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">alphabet is a sequence of ordered symbols.</SPAN></SPAN></I></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Steve! I think I know where your confusion is....The definition you wrote above is for the word ALPHABET, but not specifically for the ROMAN alphabet.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are many alphabets in the world..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>GREEK Alphabet</DIV><DIV>ROMAN Alphabet</DIV><DIV>RUSSIAN Alphabet</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I guess all Alphabets place symbols in a sequence or order...that is for sure, and that is why SignWriting is considered an alphabet too...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But what makes the ROMAN alphabet ROMAN? The symbols themselves look different than the symbols in the GREEK alphabet...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And there is another thing that is unique to the ROMAN alphabet...the Roman Alphabet is used to write MORE than just one spoken language...GREEK writes GREEK, but is not used to write Spanish, but the Roman Alphabet is used to write Spanish, French, English and many other western spoken languages...that is why SignWriting is more like the ROMAN ALPHABET than other alphabets...because it writes multiple signed languages...here is a description I wrote years ago:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:FFFE746E-2828-47D2-A895-23897FF42262@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>