Re: Slavic Conlangs (was Re: Hello to you all!)

From: kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET [mailto:kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET]

> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:03:07PM -0000, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> > From: Frank George Valoczy [mailto:valoczy@VCN.BC.CA]
> > > On the Cyrillic note, I think I might devise ways to write
> > > Irish, French
> > > and Japanese in Cyrillic...(I think one day someone's going
> > > to shoot me
> > > for these things I do...)
> >
> > As I, and many other have said in the past, Cyrillic'd
> probably be almost
> > perfectly suited to Irish, better than the damned Latin
> alphabet anyway.
>
> Hmm, not sure how you'd handle lenition, OK for the caol vs
> leathan though.
> I've wondered about trying to write Irish/SG in Czech or
> Polish orthography.
> However just for the hell of it, how about if the Russ were converted
> and taught to write by Dark Age Irish missionaries (not
> entirely impossible).
>
> So Moscbha, tobharaisd ...
>
> (Is beag an Ruisseanach a tha agamsa!)
Oh, that's *so* begging to be done! I don't know all that much Russian
either beyond the odd word that you'd pick up anyway, but just to do
something like that, I'd almost learn :-)

K.