Re: Workshops Review #4

En réponse à Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>:

>
> Possibly because it never really went anywhere.
> That is, no neohellenic speaking countries in the
> way we have all the Romance languages. Also, most
> people who are aware of Greek are aware of
> Classical Greek, not Koine; and anyway, it's all
> written foreign. ;)
Well, the fact that it was all "written foreign" inspired me when I created
Astou, which is written using the Greek alphabet but with different values
(eta, for instance, becomes a consonant marking /h/ ;))) ).

 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. 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.

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