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From: Phosphor <justin@csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: My first attempt
Date: 1997/11/19
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Zeus Simeoni wrote:

|Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
|> 
|> In art<Pine.OSF.3.96.971117153407.21817C-100000@alpha3.csd.uwm.edu>,
|> Phosphor <justin@csd.uwm.edu> writes:
|> >|)|( E M |/| C /\ A B
|> >|~~~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~
|> >|C K O )|( K O B C K |/|
|> >|~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~
|> >|Or am I miles out here? (I know I have the L wrong.)
|> >
|> >That would be "*emislav sko*kovki" ...?
|> 
|>                Zhemislav skozhkovski    You missed an 'S'
|>                ~~           ~~   *Well, seeing as there is no z in the russian alphabet, that kind of
|eliminates that one. :) fortunatly, the number 3 looks just like the
|capitol version of what we pronouce Z in english.... Unfortuantly, the
|letter prounced as a D is next to impossible to translate to ascii,
|unless you want a large font. and >|< is as close as we get to another
|letter, (not sounding like anything in english)

On my computer, "*" looks like ">|<."

But the letter usually looks like:

\  |  /
 \/|\/
 / | \
/  |  \

|   _/\_                 /\              _____
|  / `` \ or maybe     _/__\_             | |
|                     /      \ (not A)    J | (about as small as it gets)

Didn't I do the 'l'?
___  
J |  E N |/| N   

Looks fine in two lines.

let me give a shot at the 'd'
  _   
 /_|  
'   ' 
   __
  / |
 /__|
|    |

Hmm... three lines seems to be the smallest...

|Anyway, as you can see, one-liners are impossible.

yep. you could use 'dth', and stuff, but it's doesnt give accurate
pronounciation. 

|Besides, I found out recently that the name IS polish, so all this is 
|moot as far as that name is concerned.  But as far as the rest goes,
|writing the cyrillic alphabet in one-line ascii is about as easy or 
|possible as writing the japeneese or aribic letters in one-line ascii.

yep. I said I thought the name was Polish before...

two or three lines could work.

__________________________________________________________________Phosphor