Capitals in Greek (was: Re: Workshops Review #4)

On 15 Jan 2003 at 14:31, Joseph Fatula wrote:

> From: "Padraic Brown" <elemtilas@...>
> Subject: Re: Workshops Review #4
>
> You could easily make a case for Greek not being taught in its own script in
> the same way.  All the study materials, textbooks, etc. that I've got for
> Ancient Greek use the lowercase forms as in Modern Greek.  Greek today uses
> very few capitals, less than Roman alphabet languages, so much so that I
> can't always remember how to pronounce the capitals - making reading of the
> original texts/inscriptions fairly difficult, even when I know all the
> words.
>
Just out of curiosity, when are capitals used in modern Greek? I remember once
leafing through a Greek newspaper just for fun and finding much fewer capitals than
I expected, but I'm totally in the dark as what the rules are for their use.

ObConlang: I've been tossing around ideas for a script for Ajuk, and am looking for
alternative ideas for systems of capitalization from those used in the Roman
alphabet, and alphabets with no capitals.

--
Robert

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