On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:25:52 +0100, Philippe Verdy" wrote: > 2015-10-29 9:29 GMT+01:00 Marcel Schneider : > >> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:46:46 -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote: >> >>> Along the same lines, should I be able to change my last name >>> officially to Ƃpyxᴎc? (NB all letters are codepoints with names >>> starting with "LATIN"). >> >> This request results in using Latin to imitate Cyrillic in a country where >> this kind of approach has never been official.
> The glottal stop is used in African countries that have never used any > Cyrillic alphabet. That letter is full part of the Latin alphabet but needed > for those languages. That Latin glottal stop competes also with a > representation in the Arabic script (the letter form however is different). The request I was referring to is Leo's. Otherwise, Philippe's contribution is informative and useful. It just shouldn't have been sent in *reply* to the above. I'm not likely to respond further on this topic, as I stopped to be concerned. I just repeat myself quoting: > Arguing that this aping Cyrillic be “along the same lines”, is stacking > insult over insult. > Itʼs a true example of the way how jokification can be perverted. > As that has been done in public, it brings the need of a public apology, > particularly with respect to future archive readers. > This has already been exposed off list, in conformance to List Policies. > However I feel the need to send it “on the record”, so everybody is reassured > that there was more than one single person defending the serious of the > threadʼs subject. Expecting, Marcel
