On: The Death of the Urdu Script

[cabalamat]

> There are arabic derived scripts at least as far east as China and the Philippines (jawi), but describing them as Middle Eastern is plain wrong

Is it, though?

I'd describe the Roman script as European (since it originated in Europe) without expecting to be corrected, even though the vast majority of people who use it live outside Europe.

[contingencies → cabalamat]

Would you describe a page of written Vietnamese or Hanyu Pinyin as European? That's a fairer comparison to the author's turn of phrase.

[cabalamat → contingencies]

I would describe the scripts they're written in as European. The languages themselves aren't, obviously.

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You seem to be trying very hard to look very smart, yet you (probably purposefully) seem to be missing the point of everyone you reply to. That is not really making you look "smart".