[B-Greek] Why Monotonic Greek. Was: Free Polytonic Uncial GreekUnicode Font?
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 10 11:24:13 EDT 2006
I'm astounded by your logic. In Greek an eta is still an eta regardless of whether it has a rough breathing, a smooth breathing or none whatsoever. How does that compare to IPA? In IPA it is the sound which is represented, not necessarily the spelling.
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Curtis Hinson <curtis at curtishinson.com> wrote:
Hello again,
I wanted to note a couple of things quickly before I have to leave in a
moment. First, the reason I brought up modern English was to point out
what the effect would be on us if we spelled English in a way that was
more considerate (in theory anyway) of foreigners. Although in practice
if we really did spell in IPA notation, it would probably cripple new
speakers rather than helping them obtain a normal ability eventually by
learning the normal alphabet. In that light it's understandable why
Greeks rejected polytonic.
george
gfsomsel
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