On roman letters and other stories
Charles Lock
This essay questions the assumption that roman alphabet is more purely phonetic than any other, and other scripts writing-systems are less efficient, whether for production of texts or their comprehension. Those who habitually use letters asked to consider competence understand writing systems. The work Stanley Morison emphasizes ideological significance alphabets particular letter-forms. M.B. Parkes Paul B. Saenger cited indicate how punctuation spacing aspects roman-letter system cannot be treated as phonetic. Beyond world there a focus on Syriac Xi’an stele, which was printed by Athanasius Kircher in 1667 marks first publication west substantial text Chinese.
Journal of world literature