Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

From: Marcel Schneider via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:51:06 +0100 (CET)

On 30/10/2018 at 18:59, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
>
> Marcel Schneider wrote:
>
> > This use case is different from the use case that led to submit
> > the L2/18-206 proposal, cited by Dr Ewell on 29/10/2018 at 20:29:
>
> I guess this is intended as a compliment.

Right.

> While many of the people you
> quoted do have doctoral degrees, many others of us do not.

Making a safe distinction is beyond my knowledge, safest is not to discriminate.

>
> > E.g. small caps is out of scope, given the postcard writer did not
> > write the names in small caps, that in Latin script are merely a
> > stylistic convention intended for scientific publication and so on —
> > while Cyrillic script currently uses “small caps” to write in
> > lowercase.
>
> You're joking, right?

No, I wasn’t, nowhere.

>
> Аа Бб Ее Рр
>
> This undermines a lot of what you are claiming to know about writing
> systems, and about the difference between case distinctions and styling.

Unfortunately, yes. My apologies to all Cyrillic scriptors hurted while I
assumed that every Cyrillic capital letter is a big version of its lowercase.
It’s ironic, given I worked hard to revise the French nameslist, including
the Cyrillic block, where I propose to make more subdivisions, the actual
heading scheme seems to me as not being respectful enough.

Sorry.

Marcel
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