Re: Futurese

>>Can you suggest an alternative letter assignment which
>>doesn't introduce diacritics nor additional letters
>>nor leaves any letter unused?
>
>Well, your scheme had exactly one 26 phones to distribute among the 26
>letters of the Roman alphabet. That'd mean 26! possible arrangements.
I meant, can you suggest an alternative letter assignment
that "makes sense", i.e. that doesn't arbitrarily
assign /b/ to <g> or /u/ to <e>?

>Anyway, IF the reason for chosing the Roman alphabet is that it's well-
known
>around the globe,
Absolutely no. The reason for choosing the Roman
alphabet is not that it is well-known, but that it
is available for almost everyone around the globe
and causes no problem when used in computers. If
a completely new alphabet wouldn't cause those
inconveniences, it would be a better choice.


> THEN it would logically seem to follow that it's
>desireable that the use of said script is as familiar as possible for as
>many people as possible. IN THIS CASE, it ought to be much less interesting
>what Albanian does than what languages like Spanish, English or German
does,
>for the very simple reason that very many more people are familiar with the
>later languages than with Albanian. From your later posts, it APPEARS you
>are more interested in making clever and elegant use of the Roman script
>than maximizing familiarity,
You got it right now: I'm interested in making a clever
and elegant use of the Roman script rather than following
the usage of certain languages just because they have more
speakers than those of Albanian.


> IN WHICH CASE Albanian is a no worse model than
>Spanish etc. I won't repeat this again - I believe to have made myself so
>clear that only those don't want to understand can fail to do so.
Yes, you made yourself very clear now. I hope I've
managed to make myself equally clear too.

Cheers,
Javier