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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 9 of 32 12 September 2011 at 7:53am | IP Logged | ||
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nway, the thread is about scripts, not economies and societies. You have already started
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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5415 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 10 of 32 12 September 2011 at 8:01am | IP Logged | ||
My point is that a script can hardly be considered debilitating if the people who use it are nonetheless able to prosper just as well as those that use allegedly "more efficient" scripts. The connection should be pretty clear... After all, if we're not discussing inefficient scripts with respect to their effect on the people who use them, then what is the point of even discussing this? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 11 of 32 12 September 2011 at 10:17am | IP Logged | ||
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The main problem of the Latin alphabet is that it is made to reflect Latin poor
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| yassi Diglot Newbie Austria Joined 4829 days ago 34 posts - 49 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC1 Studies: Turkish, Slovak | Message 12 of 32 12 September 2011 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | ||
This totally depends on the language you're talking about and on the way these languages uses these letters. E.g. Azerbaijani uses all three letters c, k and q - but they represent different sounds. k is like English "k" in "kind" c is like English "j" in "january" q is a mixture of English "k" and English "g" in "gold" And Azerbaijani has a letter for "ch": ç - by the way, German uses a combination of four letters to write this sound: tsch. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Yurk Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5730 days ago 29 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Azerbaijani Studies: Modern Hebrew, Sign Language, Korean, Spanish, Indonesian, Irish Studies: French | Message 13 of 32 13 September 2011 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||
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The Latin script is fine.
As others have point out, you're only criticizing the orthography of English here, not the Latin script itself. And the inconsistency of that orthography in the example you give is a result of phonetics, there is hardly anything offputting about "doncha." The way individual languages write the sounds present in the language is determined by that language's community; it's not as if the Latin script has a deficiency of letters (look at all the variants) or something. And the order of the alphabet is hardly a relevant issue in the grand scheme of things. If you want to criticize the Latin script, talk about the shapes of the letters themselves or the general speed at which they're written in comparison to other scripts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4847 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes | Message 14 of 32 13 September 2011 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find that after the arabic alphabet, the latin alphabet is the most beautiful of all, the words simply fit each other perfectly. It's way better looking than both greek and cyrryllicaicxasxas alphabet
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 15 of 32 13 September 2011 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5066 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 16 of 32 13 September 2011 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
BTW, it's spelled Cyrillic...You've obviously never seen cursive Cyrillic. It all fits together perfectly. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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