Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??


Herman Rubin wrote:
I do not know if much larger alphabets than the Latin one
have been successfully placed on typewriters.

As I am supposed to learn Amharic one of these days, I wonder how a
typewriter would handle fidal, i.e. the Amharic syllabary. Actually,
the whole thing - I mean fidal - looks terribly crude and unreadable
to me. Has it been directly computerized from manuscript characters,
or something?

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