distinct letters of our print alphabet

You haven't seen my handwriting, then. :)

I really enjoyed the little bit of self-study towards Arabic I did. The language hacker (http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_5.html#SEC9) in me has a lot of fun with the "this set of consonants gives a base concept, applying the vowels like so gives you different parts of speech" ruleset. Sigh, yet another of my on-hiatus projects that I'd like to get back to...