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Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Saturday, February 21, 2004, 18:13
Guess they had an Internetus site called
VVVVVV.SPQR.COM ?

(To Joe: a language with only one case is to me the
same that a language with no cases at all)

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Joe <joe@...>: > > > Andreas Johansson wrote: > > > > >Quoting Joe <joe@...>: > > >>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. > >
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