Re: Of Haa/hhet & other matters (was: mu for [N])

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:26:08 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> But why do we need both upper and lower case forms? Mainly just
> Greek-derived alphabets that seem to feel the need. Arabic, Hebrew, the
> many Indian scripts, Burmese, Thai and others seem to get along happily
> without separate upper & lower case.
And Georgian used to have separate cases, to my understanding, until
they realised they could get along just fine with only one so they
chucked what used to be upper case.

(Or maybe someone broke into the government printer's office and stole
the - literal - upper case? So they had to print laws with only
lower-case letters from then on, and couldn't afford the money to have
upper-case type re-cast?

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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