Re: Cyrillic for English
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 14, 1999, 13:10 |
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At 09:55 -0800 9.12.1999, Roland Hoensch wrote:
>
>It is, after all, a rather odd thing that so much of the world uses the
>alphabet
>of a dead-language whose letters they need to supplument with custom ones.
Yep.
>Which, with Latin, mean a dash here and there, a tilde, etc... Cyrillic, as
>I see
>it tends to take on whole new letters.
Apart from putting letters of the canonical Church Slavonic inventory to
more or less new uses these new letters tend to be modifications of the old
ones, which in a sense are diacritics, too.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...>
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