Re: Ogham and Initialisms

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At 11:24 +0200 2004-07-22, fantasai wrote:
>If a Latin initialism

A what?

>appears in a bottom-to-top text and the characters are oriented
>upright rather than rotated, should the initialism read up or down?
>
> U A
> S or S ?
> A U

In addition to the anachronism in this particular example, what
you've said doesn't make sense. In Ogham, you'd write (using feather
marks here) >-U-S-A-< and in bottom to top orientation that whole
string would be rotated with the U toward the bottom and the A toward
the top.

What you described would just be wrong.

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