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DBWI/AHC: ROMAN CURSIVE SCRIPT NEVER FADES FROM USE
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Planet of Hats
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Was this not what the English did adopt before they became Christians? The English Futhorc.
(OOC: Yeah sort of, but Futhorc took a different route in character design. The Unicode transcriber I used took some from all three Futhark alphabets, though. I think it's mostly Elder/Younger Futhark, not Anglo-Saxon runes.)
(OOC: Really makes you think about the odd nature of our bicameral script, doesn't it?
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OOC: Now if only I could use that (made up) Baltic script in Widewuto's flag...(OOC: Really makes you think about the odd nature of our bicameral script, doesn't it?
B-29_Bomber
Banned
STAHP SHOUTING AT ME!!!
In our neck of the woods we write like this!
It's much more elegant than your shout-y script.
In our neck of the woods we write like this!
It's much more elegant than your shout-y script.
STAHP SHOUTING AT ME!!!
In our neck of the woods we write like this!
It's much more elegant than your shout-y script.
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I'M SURPRISED THEY MADE A UNICODE BLOCK FOR THOSE SQUIGGLES, REALLY.
THEY WANTED TO BE ALL POLITICALLY CORRECT AND PROVIDE BLOCKS FOR PRETTY MUCH ALL EUROPEAN ALPHABETS. EVEN POSSIBLY FICTIONAL ONES LIKE THIS CURSIVE THING.
AT LEAST THEY ADDED THE WIDEWUTO SCRIPT, TOO.
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Erm.....have I wandered into the "CAPITAL LETTERS FAN CLUB" again? Pardon, as I'm an English guy myself(Mercia's where it's all at!), but I never have quite understood why the revival of all these ancient/mediaeval history fads in the past decade or so have been so popular, including, dare I say, in my own country. I dunno, maybe I'm just behind the times.
In any case, I think the original Roman cursive surviving might have allowed for more widespread literacy, as, in our reality, a cohesive small-case lettering system did not appear again until the 13th Century and it was not until the 17th that it became widespread; during the intervening period, hardly anyone even in Rome itself could read! And with more literacy comes more technology, and with more technology comes.....well, you know what I mean, right? Perhaps we'd be exploring the deepest regions of our galaxy by 2016 A.D., instead of having just landed on the moon in 1981, etc.
In any case, I think the original Roman cursive surviving might have allowed for more widespread literacy, as, in our reality, a cohesive small-case lettering system did not appear again until the 13th Century and it was not until the 17th that it became widespread; during the intervening period, hardly anyone even in Rome itself could read! And with more literacy comes more technology, and with more technology comes.....well, you know what I mean, right? Perhaps we'd be exploring the deepest regions of our galaxy by 2016 A.D., instead of having just landed on the moon in 1981, etc.
King Thomas
Banned
ROMANS ON THE INTERNET WOULD BE SHOUTING ALL THE TIME WHICH WOULD GET VERY IRRITATING.
OOC: If everybody wrote in all caps, it wouldn't seem like shouting, so people wouldn't find it irritating
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