-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 04:44, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 06/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is >> >> But that's how the US maintains it's hegemony over the Internet... >> >> Well, that and the fact that (compared to "calligraphic", >> pictographic & hieroglyphic languages) Greco-Latin alphabets are >> small, simple, regularized, easy to print, and a perfect basis for >> extensible vocabulary. > > Greek is not in ASCII,
Never said it was. > and Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and all the Russian derives from Greek. Note that I specified Greco-Latin. > European languages that have modified Latin scripts are just as small > (Hebrew is smaller), simple (Arabic is simpler), regularized (if you > mean that there is only a small, repeating set of symbols), easy to > print (unless you have a ball-hammer printer), and are perfect basi > (sp?) for extensible vocabulary. With the semitic languages, the problem I see is that one letter can "flow" under another letter, and dots here and there change the meaning of the letter. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHqv3rS9HxQb37XmcRAow6AKDVK5G4tp0tE2obpzj0Z9WJT3M+PACgjMGt 0LkYYk/gbnhlApn9v+HxXFA= =tTh6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
