Re: Language Patterns and Script

[Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim wrote:
> Harlan Messinger schrieb:
> > The issue seems to be whether the viability of a script depends on the
> > patterns, not whether the patterns result from having a particular
> > script as seems to be your interpretation.
> >
> > > However, when we know a pattern we can predict the vowels
> > > easily, dispense with them and use shorthand script
>
> No Harlan I said the viability of  Arabic script depends on language
> patterns.

You said, "To me all languages depend on patterns and script has nothing 
to do with it," the implication about your line of reasoning being that 
(a) you understood the claim to be that Arabic has the patterns it has 
because, at least in part, of the script that's used, and (b) you're 
contradicting that claim based on the fact that all languages have 
patterns regardless of the script used for them, if any at all. If (a) 
is not what you meant, then you don't seem to have meant what you said 
in your remark.

> Still all languages use patterns, don't they? It is of course
> difficult ot read English without the vowels partly because there are
> five of them and not only three as in Arabic.

True.