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Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
While the principle is sound enough, Hangul may not be the best example of that. King Sejong certainly wasn't elected. But he was a kindly king, concerned with the common people, which is why h…1 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
Oh, yes, this is quite common in older French chess books. Such books are represented on the Internet Archive, and in Google Books, among other places. That's because the French name for the Bis…4 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
I see that the mold you have pictured must be a very old example, since the black pieces are on the bottom of the diagram. While having black at the top is an almost universal convention, even in the…1 -
Re: Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending
...or, for that matter, in French. But in both cases, y is acting as a vowel. As far as I know, Cyrillic does not engage in such shenanigans; letters are either vowels or consonants, and do not chang…2 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
My position is that I agree with you that there's no need to Latinize Armenian, but I disagree with the idea that Cyrillic letterforms should go back to what existed before Peter the Great. The…1
