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Re: Workshops Review #4

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 16:18
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>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. 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. >
That's how a friend of mine who did Latin this and last year learnt it... (VCE LOTE - Latin 3&4 by correspondence. VCE 3&4 means Year 12-equivalent, the final year of secondary school.) Tristan. http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema?