Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)

Keith, talking the old alphabet, Irish Uncial/Irish Insular..

Will see if I can do an example for ya.

But B with a dot over it, is BH which sounds like V.

I was more talking about writing it out and in cursive. How many
times is a DOT left out or makes the base letter look wierd or
worse.. Unreadable..

Russians, yes, based on current in I rememember 12th century
Greek. Cyrillic named for St. Cyril but done my his buddy St.
Methodius, Cyrill did Old Church Slovonic, talk about getting
creative with Greek inspired characters..

Roman/Latin characters is based on Greek, either via the
Etruscans or the Greeks in southern Italy (Gracia Majora), or
maybe those on Sicily..

While the Greeks got it likely from the Phonecians and the
phonecians seem to have taken Egyptian Heiroglyphs, and Heiratic
and likely influenced by Linear A and Cuniform (Sumerian and
Akkadian/Assyrian).

Apis the Bull > Alpha
and the sign for House > Beta.

Heiroglyphs = holy writing, the ones in stone for the most part.
While Heiratic is what is often used more common in writtern
text.. Heiroglyphs being used sort of a s capitals or for
special things like holy names and like.

The AB story, does make me think of Crete and the Bull Cult..
Bull House, I forget what G was ... Gamma/Gimiel. But in
Egyption glyphs..

Sorry, people love to make things complex, but heh, I have my
own form of Tengwar and it looks sometimes more like a cross
between Arabic, Sanskrit and Tibeten/Mongolian/Manchu in writing
form,

Mike

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