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Re: cyrillic?

From:Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 18:42
I personally don't like cyrillic because its angular as Barry said... I
like scripts that are all curves and dots like arabic writing. I don't
like the roman alphabet that much either.

>Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes: > > >>i would like to know who thinks cyrillic looks better the the roman >>alphabet? >> >> > >I like cyrillic a lot, but it's a lot more "domineering" than the Latin >alphabet, due to all the angles a lot of its letters have, especially in >sans serif fonts. A lot of the lower case letters just look like the >capital forms. There is a kind of elegance to the more times-roman style >fonts, and the cursive looks quite fancy. > >But overall, i think the Latin alphabet has it for simplicity, and >softness (unless you write in CAPS THEN IT LOOKS AS DOMINEERING AS >CYRILLIC :)). > > >