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From: Alfred M Kriman <akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu>
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To: classics@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Not in the latest Explorator

David Meadows reported on
> Academicians warn of threat to alphabet
> Forty members of the Athens Academy have issued a declaration warning of 
> the threat posed to the Greek alphabet by the increasing use of Western 
> characters, and calling on all Greeks to protect their millennia-old 
> writing system.
....
> "We cannot accept the disguising of our writing," the text continued, "with 
> the replacement of many letters by others that are supposedly phonetically 
> similar."
....
> "It's noteworthy that this effort, which will produce a deathblow to
> Greek thinking and all the concepts of Hellenic civilization as
> expressed through written texts along with most humanities, ...

Does any linguist belong to the Athens Academy?  Did any linguist sign
this interesting document?

I say: BRING BACK THE DIGAMMA!  And the koppa, or whatever it was called.
And let's stop writing all the letters sideways.

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