Re: In Its Own Script (was: Workshops Review #4)

--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:

> > only Latin isn't taught in its own script.
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> Latin isn't taught in its own script?
Similar, to be sure, since modern western letter
forms are descended from medieval Latin letter
forms. Big capital letter inscriptions are easy
enough to read (though not necessarily to
decipher!); hand written texts are very hard to
deal with. I've seen a few metal tablets written
in Latin (one I think was in the Prado -
somewhere in Madrid, anyway) and I couldn't read
it. And it wasn't due to corrosion or wear,
either. The letters were just not familliar. So I
think it's not too far from reality to say that
Latin isn't taught in its own script.

Padraic.


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