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Re: Orthographic Inferiority Complex

From:Fabian <rhialto@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 19:35
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Using cyrillic would be interesting. Not many conlangs use cyrillic.
I'm not saying that the other transcriptions are 'uglier' or less
interesting. Indeed the Rokbeigalmki (sp?) ziifer (sp?) script is quite
interesting by iteself. I'm just saying that cyrillic would be
interesting too. It would give it, seen from a western point of view, a
'semi-exotic' feel to it - if its possible to use that term. One would
then think, 'hmmm... probably an exotic minority language from the
former Soviet Union', even though Rokbeigalmki probably isn't a
minority Russian language if my memory serves me correctly.
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Actually, I don't know of any conlangs that use a real world script OTHER
than Latin, specifically the iso-8859-1 set. No other real world script is
used in a conlang, afaik.

Then again, Herge used Cyrillic for one used in Tintin, but none on this
mailing list...

Someone check out www.zompist.com and translate that one from Tintin
please...

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Fabian
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