From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   unruh wrote:   
   > On 2012-05-27, Adam  wrote:   
   >> The only comparable thing that I can think of is Yiddish, which I gather   
   >> (corrections welcome) is similar to German but written in Hebrew   
   >> characters using the Hebrew pronunciation of those characters.   
   >   
   > Actually it is closer to low German, which is in general not a written   
   > language at all, so using Hebrew characters makes as much sense as   
   > using latin letters.   
   > Ie, it was a spoken, not written language.   
      
   Thanks!  I wasn't aware of that.  I gather that even Gregg or Pittman   
   shorthand could be considered another form of written English.   
      
   Adam   
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