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Re: CHAT: a conlang of my very own :) (was: Re: unsubscribing)

From:Keith Gaughan <kgaughan@...>
Date:Monday, June 3, 2002, 16:59
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM]

> Christophe Grandsire scripsit: > > > Well, I personally find the Gaelic orthography extremely > > aesthetic :)) . So in my opinion any improvement would more > > likely destroy this aesthetics that it has found and is not > > desirable. > > The big improvement would be to switch to Cyrillic, which would be > very aesthetic indeed.
Only if the Welsh make the change too! :-) Seriously though, though Cyrillic suits Gaelic better from a functional point of view, the old Latin orthography just fits it better aesthetically.