[OSM-talk] Languages, OSM, scripts and all that.
Liz
edodd at billiau.net
Fri Aug 6 21:51:47 BST 2010
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Paul Houle wrote:
> Cultural imperialist or not, my suspicion that that the roman
> alphabet is (at least somewhat) understood by educated people who use
> non-roman alphabets regularly (this is definitely the case in the CJK
> area.) On the other hand, my guess is that the ability to read Arabic
> is as common in, say Korea, as it is in the U.S.
Step one pace to the side and consider again
If I read in Cyrillic script normally I will have been taught some Roman
script at school. If I leave my home where I use Cyrillic script and go to
"Egypt " to see the "Pyramids" how will I manage when my only scripts are
Cyrillic and Roman with a bit of effort?
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