On 27 October 2016 at 21:40, Random832
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016, at 14:28, Mikhail V wrote:
So you need umlauts to describe an algorithm and to explain yourself in turkish? Cool story. Poor uncle Garamond spins in his coffin...
Why do you need 26 letters? The Romans didn't have so many. Hawaiian gets by with half as many - even if you count the accented vowels and the ʻokina it's still only 18.
Why upper and lower case? Do we *really* need digits, can't we just use the first ten letters?
Allowing each language to use its own alphabet, even if any of them may be inefficient and all of them together certainly are, is the only reasonable place to draw the line.
Hi Random, Yes that is what I am trying to tell, but some paint a "bigot" of me. So there is no contradiction here. You know you "local" script and you know Latin. So it belongs to my human right if I want to choose a more effective one, so since Latin is most effective now, I take it. Simply like I take a wheel without defects and with tight pressure in tyre. I don't have emotions or sadness that I will forget my strange old letters. And if we return to problem of universal communication "kind of standard" then what the sense to take a defect wheel? I am not the one to allow or disallow anything, but I respect the works of Garamond and his predecessors who made it possible for me to read without pain in eyes and I disrespect attempts to ruin it. And beleive me, it is *very* easy to ruin it all by putting umlauts and accents, just like putting stones in the tyre. Mikhail