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by inejge 655 days ago
> Hot take

Uh yeah it is. A writing system needs a flat surface, a writing implement, and a mind prepared to learn. If enough people think that the new alphabet is a good idea, fonts and layout engines will follow. For Adlam, they did. (Another invented system which took off indigenously: Cherokee syllabary[1].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary