Re: Workshops Review #4

--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:


>  I always thought it (and
> > Sanskrit,etc.) should be taught in Roman
> letters.
> > The only people that _really_ need to read
> the
> > native letters are those interested in
> reading
> > texts at first hand. It's kind of unfair that
> > only Latin isn't taught in its own script.
> >
>
> Well, it kinda is (I don't think there's enough
> difference between the Roman
> script and the Latin script to call them
> different alphabets.
Ah, I mean in a form that looks like old Latin
manuscripts. Latin is _taught_ in nice, easy to
read letters like the ones I'm typing in, but
real texts are written in a messy alphabet that
isn't always easy to decipher.

I also thing Greek and especially Sanskrit would
be _much_ more accessible if we could dispense
with the native alphabets. Of course, the same
goes for many modern languages, too. I'd like to
learn a little Persian, just to speak it; but I
don't really want to have to learn the Arabic
letters that are used with Persian, just to get
through a TY type text.

Padraic.


They are used
> differently, and the Roman script acquired a
> few new letters, but they both are
> still basically identical). Of course, we could
> be taught to write Latin only
> using capital letters and to replace all Js by
> Is and Us by Vs, but the change
> is so minimal that people usually don't bother
> but explaining how the original
> Latin script was. And which Latin script would
> you teach? The original one with
> C marking both /k/ and /g/? ;))))
>
> Christophe.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
> Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody
> else play the leading role.

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