Re: USAGE: Con-graphies

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 Philip Newton wrote:
> ...
> > A decade or so ago, I flirted with Shavian script, as
> > once before in my youth, at the time Shaw's bequest
> > was won.  But the winning solution seemed so remote
> > from everything that went before (moreover, I thought
> > it not particularly well designed) that it was unlikely
> > ever to gain acceptance, even by an army of loyal fans.
> > Perhaps I was wrong?
>
> It's hard to know how many friends the Shaw alphabet has. Some of them
> are on the shawalphabet Yahoo Groups mailing list, but even there,
> attitudes are diverse, and there aren't that many regulars (less than
> a dozen, I'd say). Come and join us, though! (Don't join the 'shavian'
> Y!G, though -- its moderator is AWOL and so it's become somewhat
> spam-infested. Nearly everyone who used to read it moved to
> 'shawalphabet'.)

Philip,

Thanks for the pointer!   I see my friend of many years,
Andy Callaway, is already a member.

BTW - I vastly prefer Yahoo!Groups' new daily digest
format to the one I'm reading and replying to right now ...!

Regards,
Yahya

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