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

On May 26, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> 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 don't have an example text immediately to hand, but in later texts
> (even
> into the fully-alphabetic stage), YHWH is written "DINGIRÿhwh".
> Paul

What's the significance of the diereisis (i have no idea how to spell
that, and i don't care ;) ) over the |y|?



-Stephen (Steg)
  "...in your house i long to be
   room by room patiently
   i'll wait for you there
   like a stone
   i'll wait for you there
   alone..."
      ~ 'like a stone' by audioslave

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