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@Affekt @futurebird @zens@merveilles.town @jayalane @EverydayMoggie
Weirdly enough, we never even ventured into Cyrillic, and barely into Hebrew (two letters!)
Never Arabic. Nor hiragana / katakana / kanji.
@timjan @Affekt @futurebird @zens @EverydayMoggie I took Attic Greek in college and while I never could read Plato I never had issues with ksi vs psi vs phi in math classes. I prefer more Greek letters to weird German letters. And I like to see blackboard in print.
i think there's a really strong cutoff point where a lot of people's brains just stop being able to learn new scripts, like worse even than spoken language
@timjan @Affekt @futurebird @zens @EverydayMoggie it is a lot of work (for a English only as a child person) to a new alphabet. When I was taking Greek as a 20 year old, every once in a while it would all just turn into squiggles. I tried learning Telugu and Sinhala alphabets as a fifty year old and it's mostly just a non-starter. Doesn't help that half the 16 different vowels all sound the same to my ears, but even so ...
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@jayalane @EverydayMoggie
I used Devanagari in my problem sets in grad school. It was not appreciated.
@zillion @Affekt @futurebird @zens@merveilles.town @jayalane @EverydayMoggie
I love it :)