Re: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Units

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 19:48:14 EDT


At 04:19 PM 02-08-02, David Starner wrote:

>Stop being so ethnocentric. The extended Latin alphabet alone is much
>larger than 26 characters, and that ignores all the Cyrillic languages,
>some of which were probably written with digraphs.

And trigraphs and, in at least one Cyrillic transcription system for an
unwritten language (Agul), quadragraphs.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

Language must belong to the Other -- to my linguistic community
as a whole -- before it can belong to me, so that the self comes to its
unique articulation in a medium which is always at some level
indifferent to it. - Terry Eagleton



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