Re: Cyrillic for English

Roland Hoensch wrote:
> Cyrillic handles things that Latin never could.
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.

> 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.
Uh, no.  We use an alphabet that a long-dead language also used.

> Which, with Latin, mean a dash here and there, a tilde, etc...  Cyrillic, as
> I see
> it tends to take on whole new letters.
Because it was MADE with those letters, just like the Roman alphabet was
made with the letters it has.

Besides, we've added 3 letters since Roman times - w, j, and u.

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