Re: +AFs-CONLANG+AF0- Vowel romanization

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.
>
>
Andreas


=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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