Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

I believe Arabic has 4 forms for some letters: word
initial, inside of the word, end of the word, and
isolated letter.

In Greek, you have two forms for minuscule beta
(beginning or inside of the word), and two for
minuscule sigma (inside or end of the word); plus the
capital forms.

And let's not forget bold, italics and underlined in
modern fonts (plus some more possibilities).

(NB. It should be "ne se réveilleraient plus")

--- Carsten Becker <post@...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> From: "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@NC.RR.COM
> <mailto:paul-bennett@...>>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need
> capital and small
> letters?
>
>
>  > On Tue, 25 May 2004 19:55:59 -0400, Javier BF
> <uaxuctum@YAHOO.ES
> <mailto:uaxuctum@...>>
> wrote:
>  >
>  > > [Danny Wier]
>  > >
>  > >> > 1) If your conlangs are written in two-case
>  > >> > alphabets/abjads/syllabries, what are the
> rules?
>  > >
>  > > It just occurred to me: Could a case be made
> for a higher-
>  > > than-two-case system, say, a three-case system
> with uppercase,
>  > > lowercase and 'middlecase'?  Come to think of
> it, in a way
>  > > that's what we actually have already...
> counting small caps!
>  > > Any idea for a four-case system?
>  >
>  > I have an "intermediate" stage in Thagojian,
> whereby "important" nouns
>  > (usually historical personal and place names) are
> written in the
>  > cuneiform-derived logo-syllabary (including the
> use of the character
>  > derived from dingir (which just happens to look
> like a crucifix)
> before
>  > holy names), whereas the rest of a text would be
> written in the
> alphabetic
>  > script. The alphabetic script is uncial, though,
> so I don't know
> exactly
>  > where it stands in your number-of-cases
> classification. Maybe this is
> more
>  > readily compared to the situation in Japanese
> than it is to questions
> of
>  > case?
>
> I just wanted to add that Javanese script (see
> omniglot.com) also
> behaves similar: There are the Aksara consonants
> (the normal ones), the
> Pasangan consonants for C+C clusters, the Aksara
> murda consonants for
> the initials of names and the subscript Aksara murda
> consonants for C+C
> name initials. And there's the punctuation (looks
> really complicated...)
> and of course there are the vowels.
>
> -- Carsten
>
> =========================
>
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> dormant, ...
> I wrote:    ... des générations d'élèves ne se
> revailleraient plus.
>
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=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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