At 04:19 PM 02-08-02, David Starner wrote: >Stop being so ethnocentric. The extended Latin alphabet alone is much >larger than 26 characters, and that ignores all the Cyrillic languages, >some of which were probably written with digraphs.
And trigraphs and, in at least one Cyrillic transcription system for an unwritten language (Agul), quadragraphs. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Language must belong to the Other -- to my linguistic community as a whole -- before it can belong to me, so that the self comes to its unique articulation in a medium which is always at some level indifferent to it. - Terry Eagleton

