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From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
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Subject: rotarolpxE tsetaL eht ni toN :eR
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> I say: BRING BACK THE DIGAMMA!  And the koppa,
> or whatever it was called.
> And let's stop writing all the letters sideways.

The Committee for the Restoration of Boustrephedon
dna ,tneduts ,sralohcs morf snoitacilppa gnikat won si
interested laypersons.  Our intention is to lobby the
nodehpertsuob fo noitpoda eht rof ssergnoC setatS detinU
writing for all official US documents.

                                              :esopruP

Dextroverse writing is as widely known a severe
-tfel ot gnitirwdnah fo gnihcaet eht ni tnemidepmi
handed children.  It is the belief of the Committee
eht taht nodehpertsuoB fo noitarotseR eht rof
universal use of dextroverse writing violates the
,tcA seitilibasiD htiw snaciremA eht fo smret
placing an unnecessary obstacle on the
eht htiw nron nerdlihc esoht fo tnempoleved lautcelletni
handicap of left-handedness.  While the adoption
rof eussi siht evloser gnitirw esrevonis fo
left-handed children, it would merely shift the
eroferehT .ytirojam dednah-thgir eht otno nedrub
only the adoption of boustrephedon writing
lla fo dleif gniyalp level a edivorp lliw
children.

lanoitceridib eht fo tnempoleved eht ot sknahT
text algorithm for computer text display and processing,
noitpoda eht rof ,gnikaeps yllacigolonhcet ,epir si emit hte
of boustrephedon writing.  The training of children and
evlovni dluohs nodehpertsuob etirw dna daer ot stluda
only trivial retraining costs.

noisses yrotcudortni ruo ot emoc ,noitamorfni roF
on 2000 February 29 at the UFANS building, NY,
                                                              .12:21 ta ,YN

Thank you for your attention.  This has been a joke.

PTR, who knows that the letters are facing the wrong way on the sinoverse
lines.

PS: Serious time: once we have everyone using the same encoding method
(i.e., Unicode), and all computers are able to handle all scripts in all
programs (which, as far as programs are concerned, will never really happen;
but all the important commerial programs will be fully internationalized),
the Greek script will no longer be threatened.  Indeed, I'd say that Greek
is the least threatened of all the non-Latin alphabetic or syllabic scripts,
in part because it is so widely used for other purposes (such as astronomy
and mathematics).  What might happen is that Greek might reduce further down
to an atonic script, even though computers can already handle monotonic and
often polytonic Greek.


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