Re: NATLANGS: What's that writing system?

On 7/7/06, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> wrote:
> WE, eh? I guess that's possible; I'm not really extremely familiar with
> Ge'ez either.
The CHA is pretty distinctively Ge'ez, though.  The "McDonald's arches
with feet". :)

The glyph looks to me like  WAA plus a flag on the right arc, but the
extent of the line below the hoop is so slight that I think WE is more
likely. The flag is on the wrong side for it to be WUA.  I could
almost believe KWI or KWA, but the vertical line doesn't rise above
the arc...

This is the sort of problem one often runs into with trying to decode
a script one isn't fluent in.  The subtleties are many, and what are
insignificant font decoration details to a native reader can
completely throw off the non-native.

Heck, based on the URL (chao.jpg), I would expect the CHA to be
followed by an O, but the Ethiopic abugida has no bare vowels.

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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