Re: Greek, glagolitic, cyrillic

On Feb 5, 4:55 pm, "mb" <azyth...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 5, 4:46 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 4, 11:58 pm, "mb" <azyth...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"Logical issues" are not "relevant to issues."

It is important when discussing endless expansion of computing
resources and addition of code pages, unicode adaptation etc. vs plain
ASCII.

Who the bloody hell is talking about "computing resources" etc.?

I imagined that the ASCII writing that is widely used to replace other
systems in computer-based communication is by definition within the
field of interest of a specialist in writing systems, like yourself.

"It is important when discussing ..." We were not so discussing.

If learning the values of digraphs is "hard to learn", learning
additional signs is at least that hard.

Nonsense. The existence of di-etc.graphs means that some forms are
used for more than one function. Learning to distinguish such distinct
uses is harder than simply learning a different letter for a different
function.

The difficulty may be equal. Can't see why one would be harder than
the other.

So you've never been a teacher.

Yes, but just presented my stuff without giving a damn if the adult
students learned or not. Still curious, though: Why not?

It is simpler to teach A = B than to teach A = C if X, A = D if Y, and
A = E otherwise.

Any examples to the contrary ? Given enough time-depth, I mean.

Arabic. The phonemic inventory of MSA is identical to that of
Classical Arabic of 1400 years ago.

MSA is not the mother tongue of anyone.

What the bloody hell does that have to do with anything?

With the fact that writing other dialects still needs a good amount of
adapting and tinkering.

Other dialects are not written. No one has tried to do a Mark Twain
and represent dialect in an adaptation of standard orthography.

Ad hoc design of a different system for each dialect/language vs.
economic use of a restricted set of signs. Computing has made it a
valid discussion (see e-mailing and posting of many non-Latin-alphabet
languages in ASCII

So go post on a computers newsgroup.

I still think that the creative and successful use of ASCII for Greek,
Armenian, Thai, etc. etc. deserves discussion within WSW.

What is WSW?

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