Re: BrScB syllabic symbols (was: Back again)

On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 06:28 , Isidora Zamora wrote:

>>
>>>> I had considered using "h" for /ni/ ~ /nu/ since at
>>>> least
>>>> it has a similar shape to "n" and the upper case H is identical to the
>>>> Cyrillic
>>>> letter for /n/.
>>>
>>> That's an even better idea.
>>
>> I think so too - but would such a use of Roman 'h' be too bizarre?
>
> Depends on how used to Cyrillic you are.
Exactly - for that reason I don't find it too bizarre.  But as, probably,
the
majority of people who use the Roman alphabet are not familiar with
Cyrillic, I just wonder how this use of 'h' would appear.

> My husband at one point realized
> that he had been studying an awful lot of Church Slavonic of late when we
> found ourselves stopped at a red light behind a car with the letters CHA
> and some numbers in the license plate.  Without thinking, he immediately
> read CHA as "sna."  Of course, then he thought twice, realized that it was
> Roman uppercase, and laughed about it.
Yes, I sometimes read license plates as Greek if the letters could be
Greek  :)

> Us the character that way if you want to.  It makes enough sense.
Thanks.

Ray
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