Re: uppercase/lowercase (was: Of Haa/hhet & other matters)

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:48:35 +1100, Tristan McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:
> As I understand it modern Greek hardly even uses the capital letters!
I'd say it uses them about as much as English -- proper nouns,
beginnings of sentences, all-caps titles, for example.


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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:15:02 +0100, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:
>  --- Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Georgian, I think, does. Or maybe it's only did?
>
> The Georgian alphabet has what could be called capital
> and lowercase letters, though the capital letters are
> only used for headlines and titles.
And the "capital" letters are merely versions of the lowercase letters
that are stretched so that they are all the same height and have the
same baseline.

AFAIK, they used to have "real" capital letters (or two separate
alphabets; not sure of the details) but got rid of them at some point.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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