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Cyrillic letters for /T/ and /D/   Message List  
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How would you all react to a (non-Slavic) Cyrillic-based
alphabet using upside-down Cyrillic {s} and {z} for /T/ and
/D/? The idea is that a 19th century alphabet maker was able
to turn existing lead types upside down to create new
symbols, but not to add diacritics or wholly new shapes.



/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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"C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil
ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)



Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:53 am

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How would you all react to a (non-Slavic) Cyrillic-based alphabet using upside-down Cyrillic {s} and {z} for /T/ and /D/? The idea is that a 19th century...
Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 22, 2008
7:53 am

... What was easy for lead printers, that is not so easy for computer printers. I wonder why Unicode does not have an "upside-down modifier". For the...
Pavel A. da Mek
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Feb 22, 2008
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... Indeed, and I've restricted/modified my proposed alphabet and phonology accordingly to letters/sounds that can be found in or faked with DejaVu, i.e. in...
Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 22, 2008
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