Re: Cyrillic for English
| From: | Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 1999, 17:19 |
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Three letters granted. That leaves English with 30-35 seperate
sounds and 26 letters. I won't say that's good or bad... but three
letters when about a good 10-12 were needed is a small start
if anything.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Cyrillic for English
> > 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.
>