[rvense]

Again, thank you for replying.

You are right, I maybe have lost track of what we're talking about, or maybe I am reading too quickly - a bit like I think you are when you take my reference to "the modern Latin alphabet and all its derivatives" to be about antiquity.

So let us backtrack. I am still reacting to your original point, which was that English has blackletter and cursive as "alternate cases". I understood that to mean that if we take the idea of the letter A (the thing that the uppercase and lowercase A have in common), that the cursive and blackletter realizations of it somehow enter into the same paradigm as the two roman glyphs do in English. I really don't see how you could argue that that is the case.

> I don't mean to seem rude, but it's not at all clear to me how you can believe this.

I can believe it because blackletter typefaces were the dominant in my country for all purposes into the early modern era, when they were supplanted by roman ones. I think this is at least partially related to the unification of Germany and our losing a war against them.

[JohnHaugeland]

None of the languages that broke away from Latin before it became bicameral followed

It's like assuming that all descendants of apes are now human