Re: Cyrillic for English
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 14, 1999, 13:19 |
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At 19:10 -0500 9.12.1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
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>Any alphabet can handle things that any other alphabet can. If we
>needed to indicate soft/hard, for instance, we could, perhaps with a
>diacritic, or with "y" or some other variant.
I like the particular way Polish does that, having {i} for "soft" /i/ and
{y} for "hard" /i/, and putting an {i} between a consonant and any other
following vowel to indicate that the consonant is "soft". Consider which
wonders that scheme could do for Irish spelling without any change to its
fundamental principles! :-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...>
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