Re: cyrillic?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 17, 2003, 18:12 |
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At 09:35 17.8.2003 +0300, Isaac Penzev wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:
> >
> > > Personally, I like the Burmese/Myanmar alpahbet.
> > >
> > > >i would like to know who thinks cyrillic looks better the the roman
> > > >alphabet?
> > > >
> > > >abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
> > > >abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890-=[]\;',./
> >
> > Of Latin and Cyrillic, I aesthetically prefer the former, chiefly
> because its
> > having real lower case
>
>Ok, I'll add my two kopecks. Cyrillic is more convenient because it covers
>wider
>range of sounds than Latin. As for aesthetic criteria, Georgian is certainly
>No.1. And it has no UPPER case in modern script!!!
My aesthetic vote clearly goes to Arabic script, especially
in the Nestaliq style!.
I also like Armenian, Tibetan and Thai scripts.
I hope it doesn't say anything about
my personality that all these are nightmarish to read!
As for Cyrillic I think it could be improved by making the
printed lowercase letters more similar to the handwriten forms.
While I do realize that Latin script has an impoverished
phonetic coverage I'm not as irritated by diacritics as
most people seem to be, so I prefer those to random ornaments
to the body of letters à la IPA and extended Cyrillic.
My 2 öre.
/BP 8^)
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