Screw the latin script and its derivatives.

No they didn't, they where also cyrillic. Maybe have some nationalist movement in Poland want to get 'closer' to other slavic countries and swtich to cyrillic, like how Romania switched to latin to get closer to Romance countries.
...really? I just said that RUSSIA TRIED TO GET POLAND TO USE CYRILLIC FOR THEIR LANGUAGE, BUT FAILED.
 

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Romania didn't stop being orthodox when it adopted the latin script
Yeah maybe even then Poland wouldn't abandon the Latin script.
If you mean that Poland would abandon Latin script even while Catholic, it's a completely different case from Romania. Been using Latin script for 700+ years, heavily into the Pope and Church, most technologically advanced neighbors (Germany and Austria/Czechs) use Latin script, historically friendliest neighbors (Hungarians and Czechs) use Latin script. Anything is possible of course, but short of mass ethnic cleansing, I don't see the Poles using a script other than Latin with such a late POD.
 
Yeah maybe even then Poland wouldn't abandon the Latin script.
If you mean that Poland would abandon Latin script even while Catholic, it's a completely different case from Romania. Been using Latin script for 700+ years, heavily into the Pope and Church, most technologically advanced neighbors (Germany and Austria/Czechs) use Latin script, historically friendliest neighbors (Hungarians and Czechs) use Latin script. Anything is possible of course, but short of mass ethnic cleansing, I don't see the Poles using a script other than Latin with such a late POD.
Romanias neighbors where mostly orthodox, didn't stop them.
 
Romanias neighbors where mostly orthodox, didn't stop them.
No, Romania's neighbors were the Ottoman Empire (Muslim/Arabic), Hungary (Catholic/Latin), and Russia (Orthodox/Cyrillic) when they adopted Latin. Also, the circumstances were quite different. It would be the same if, instead if choosing Latin willingly, Hungary conquered Romania and forced them to use the Latin alphabet-- they'd probably dislike it out of principal.
 
No, Romania's neighbors were the Ottoman Empire (Muslim/Arabic), Hungary (Catholic/Latin), and Russia (Orthodox/Cyrillic) when they adopted Latin. Also, the circumstances were quite different. It would be the same if, instead if choosing Latin willingly, Hungary conquered Romania and forced them to use the Latin alphabet-- they'd probably dislike it out of principal.
Yeah. So, could there be a way for Poland or Croatia or something to willingly adopt the cyrillic alphabet on their own terms?
 

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Would it be possible to cause a huge rift between west slavs and the Romance - Germanic sphere?
Not really. They're still all Indo-Europeans with a common cultural history. Especially religion and geography will keep them close.
So how about simple "no alphabets" then because all major modern alphabets are related to each other and Greek is the direct source of the vast majority of them.
Arabic, Chinese and other East Asian alphabets, Indian script (Devanagari?), are used by billions and are completely unrelated to Greek, Latin, or Cyrillic. Not to mention minor alphabets like Georgian, Hebrew, etc.
 
Not really. They're still all Indo-Europeans with a common cultural history. Especially religion and geography will keep them close.

Arabic, Chinese and other East Asian alphabets, Indian script (Devanagari?), are used by billions and are completely unrelated to Greek, Latin, or Cyrillic. Not to mention minor alphabets like Georgian, Hebrew, etc.

Chinese is not an alphabet at all, and neither are any of the abjads, technically, though even all the abjads (including all Indian, Ethiopian and Central Asian scripts) are cousins to Greek via Aramaic. Glagolithic, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic etc. are all Greek-descended or co-evolved. And every Runic alphabet also developed within the context of Greek-descended alphabets. If you screw Greek early enough, or conversely screw everything within one or two degrees of Greek in 1800s, you screw all alphabets everywhere fullstop. If you screw all cousins of Greek you're left with basically logographic writing and some newly-invented writing systems that would arise in the vaccuum.
 
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Chinese is not an alphabet at all, and neither are any of the abjads, technically, though even all the abjads (including all Indian, Ethiopian and Central Asian scripts) are cousins to Greek via Aramaic. Glagolithic, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic etc. are all Greek-descended or co-evolved. And every Runic alphabet also developed within the context of Greek-descended alphabets. If you screw Greek early enough, or conversely screw everything within one or two degrees of Greek in 1800s, you screw all alphabets everywhere fullstop. If you screw all cousins of Greek you're left with basically logographic writing and some newly-invented writing systems that would arise in the vaccuum.
Okay, now this is dumb semantics. Clearly, I only want to screw the Latin - Cyrillic cluster. Truth be told, Greek is only used for one language, so really you don't even need to pay much attention to it tho. But still, I'd rather it not spread unless its at the expense of latin.

Not really. They're still all Indo-Europeans with a common cultural history. Especially religion and geography will keep them close.
No, I mean somehow make them more politically connected to east orthodox countries. (By the way, why did Romania and Serbia adopt latin anyway?)
 
. (By the way, why did Romania and Serbia adopt latin anyway?)
Serbia didn't, Croatia did. Romania adopted it out of a sense of nationalism to be closer with their Romance cousins in the West, adopting words from them while purging Slavic equivalents. Croatia adopted Latin because Catholic.
 
Serbia didn't, Croatia did. Romania adopted it out of a sense of nationalism to be closer with their Romance cousins in the West, adopting words from them while purging Slavic equivalents. Croatia adopted Latin because Catholic.
So, could it be possible for Poland to do something similar, some nationalist drive wanting to embrace its Slavic heritage?
 
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