Re: cyrillic?
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 17, 2003, 12:10 |
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Tomasi Virma dats'era:
> Georgian must be a terror for dyslexics:
> no less than eight of the thirty-three letters look like the
> number three!
Well, I'm not a specialist in Georgian.
მხოლოდ ზოგიე�� თი სიტყვა ვიცი.
IMHO, only vin (ვ), k'an (კ) and p'ar (პ) may be confused on early stages...
> More seriously, Georgian has all sorts of
> alternative scripts and fonts, all commonly used unlike those
> in English, that make reading more difficult as one is first
> learning it.
I didn't know that. All the fonts on my computer (in 4 encodings: ITV, Mail
Standard, Parliament Standard and Unicode) and in two primers are quite
readable, all being variants of Mkhedruli script.
Trist'an Maklimats dats'era:
> it still looks good!
Agreed 100%. And the language is great too.
If one needs a real horror, that's lowercase Armenian! Try not to confuse ա and
տ, գ and զ or կ and վ!
~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~
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