[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: > Let's keep going. Latin Y, Greek Upsilon, Cyrillic U. Wait a minute, that > Cyrillic U doesn't look *quite* the same. Oh well, it's close enough, right?
And then there's the Cyrillic U with the straight descender, whic actually does look just like its Latin and Greek counterparts. I guess we just can't afford to have two kinds of Cyrillic U around: off with their heads (or tails)! Unfortunately, there goes all those Turkic languages written in Cyrillic. Well, they should Romanize anyway. In fact all languages should Romanize: it simplifies everything soooo much, and if we get rid of diacritics while we're at at it.... well, the ASCII Consortium (off-net, but cached in part at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IRueJQ1bA-4C:www.wholehog.fsnet.co.uk/robert/ascii/+ASCII+Consortium&hl=en) will find it a dream come true. And there was much rejoicing. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
