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Re: Workshops Review #4

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 21:58
--- 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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