Re: Cyrillic for English
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 9, 1999, 0:56 |
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abrigon wrote:
>=20
> 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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