Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote: > And these two cases are hardly a good advertisement for the expert's > reputation. The Coptic/Greek unification proved to be ill-advised and > is being undone. As for the unified W and Q, well, I guess that if the > Kurds and others who use these letters in Cyrillic knew how this > decision would mean that their alphabet will never be sorted correctly > (unless they get round to tailoring their collations), they would make > a strongly argued case for disunification. Well, perhaps the expert > can feel how much his fingers have been burned by over-unification and > so is now pressing for everything to be disunified.
I can't believe I am reading this. Far more than anyone else, Michael has *always* supported the disunification of Coptic from Greek and of Kurdish Cyrillic Q and W from their Latin counterparts. They have been two of his signature causes through the years. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
