Re: Cyrillic for English

Frankly, I think cyrillic has not the smallest chance with English. But
learning
cyrillic (I did it with Serbo-croatian) is quite easy and rather enjoyabl=
e.
It
gives one a whole new perspective on spelling.  Cyrillic handles things t=
hat
Latin never could.

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.
Which, with Latin, mean a dash here and there, a tilde, etc...  Cyrillic,=
 as
I see
it tends to take on whole new letters.



----- Original Message -----
From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Cyrillic for English


abrigon wrote:
>
> I think a alphabet based on Cyrillic would be likely to fit English muc=
h
> better than the Latin based on.
Maybe.  But, if there were to be any phonetic spelling, I'd prefer a
Latin alphabet with liberal sprinkling of diacritics and the use of
extra letters like =FE, =F0, and maybe =E6 (thorn, edh, ash).  Then I wou=
ldn't
have to learn a brand new alphabet.

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