From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2006 - 13:34:29 CST
\Michael Everson wrote on Friday, October 13, 2006 8:42 AM
> At 08:03 +0200 2006-10-13, Jony Rosenne wrote:
>>The majority of the people of the earth cannot read Roman letters.
>
> I don't believe that's true. Prove it? It's certainly the case that the
> majority of the people of the earth are regularly exposed to Latin
> letters.
Doesn't mean they can read them. Quite a few Thais, even including some who
speak enough English to chat, don't know the Roman letters, although all
Thais are exposed to Roman letters outside school. As a trivial example, I
am regularly exposed to Chinese and Japanese on the Solaris CDE welcome
screen, but I read very little of either.
Richard.
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