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Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, February 21, 2004, 15:41
Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote: > > >Quoting Joe <joe@...>: > > > > > > > > > >>Indeed. And, if his argument is correct, English doesn't use the roman > >>alphabet - w? j? u? > >> > >>Svrely, vve shovld all vvrite like this. That vvay vve vvovld be > >>staying vvithin the bovnds of the roman alphabet as vsed by Ivlivs Caesar. > >> > >> > > > >We-ell, those Roman bastards wrote in ALL CAPS. We very much should not do > >that ... > > > > > > Ah, yes, forgot that. Did they even use all caps on paper?
Well, paper wasn't en vogue back then, but on papyri, basically yes. Written letters of course didn't look exactly like those carved into monuments, but they were what we'd consider uppercase. Andreas

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