Inventing new letters

[dirk45]

They've finally made it. It only took 129 years since the Duden, the standard German word book (like the OALDCE in England, only official) asked for a Capital form of the sharp s. In 2008 they finally introduced in in Unicode revision 5.1 as letter U+1E9E.

Details see here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%C3%9F

Is it important? Definitely not. But this was probably the last chance to create a new letter in an existing language. And finally a computer technology, the Unicode, closes the gap. Weird times we live in.

 

[SharPhoe]

So... Germans never had a capital B until now?

 

[hypothetical fact]

Great, now the English language can cut back on a few useless letters like K and X.

 

[Maze1125]

So... Germans never had a capital B until now?

Not a B, a ß.
Which in German is essentially a double s.

 

[SharPhoe]

So... Germans never had a capital B until now?

Not a B, a ß.
Which in German is essentially a double s.

Oh, sorry. I didn't take German in high school, I kinda feel like an idiot now...

 

[Halceon]

C is actually more useless, as it is either used as a k or an s. The only unique use for c is in ch.

 

[dirk45]

C is actually more useless, as it is either used as a k or an s. The only unique use for c is in ch.

You could write x as ks. Which would make it the most useless letter for me, unless you're spanish (especially Mexican

 

[GloatingSwine]

If you need more letters, you can borrow some from China. They have too many [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&sq=china&st=cse&scp=5].

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

i think there should be no more letters cuz its a sin to make letters its in the bible

...An alphabet was created before the bible. Also the bible never says you can't change the alphabet.

 

[chimmers]

Great, now the English language can cut back on a few useless letters like K and X.

But that would totally fudge up F=k.x

Spriiiiiiings

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Here, I invented a new letter.


It signifies a phlegm sound.

 

[Schnippshly]

Great, now the English language can cut back on a few useless letters like K and X.

UH, IF YOU MAY SO KINDLY LEND YOUR EYEBALLS, I HAPPEN TO LIKE K! I will kill you dead.

 

[Ranooth]

Just use a mini batman symbol.

 

[G1eet]

If you need more letters, you can borrow some from China. They have too many [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&sq=china&st=cse&scp=5].

None for me, thanks.
I wouldn't mind adding in some Cyrillic ones, though.

 

[crazyjackal]

I assume it's just for letterheads and banners when they write the entire word in upper case, since I don't think there is a word that starts with ß, is there?

 

[GodsAndFishes]

Just use a mini batman symbol.

This gets my vote!!

 

[Abedeus]

If you need more letters, you can borrow some from China. They have too many [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&sq=china&st=cse&scp=5].

None for me, thanks.
I wouldn't mind adding in some Cyrillic ones, though.

Okay, then. Just learn a new language.

Want a Polish ó, u? Okay, but you must know the difference. There is none, except for nouns. Or si and ś. Both sound exactly the same. But that's like with Spanish accents above letters - write "años" wrong and instead of "years" it will give "butts". Or how one "Si" is different from "Sí". One means "if" and the other "yes". It changes a LOT. While we're at it, you must also learn letters (cough cough) like l-doble (double-L, totally different from English double-L) or what's the difference between que, cue, ge, gue and so on.

Don't complain if your language has few letters. There are worse.

 

[Flour]

I assume it's just for letterheads and banners when they write the entire word in upper case, since I don't think there is a word that starts with ß, is there?

IIRC no word can start with "ss".

 

[Unknower]

i think there should be no more letters cuz its a sin to make letters its in the bible

...An alphabet was created before the bible. Also the bible never says you can't change the alphabet.

have u read the bible? because i have, 7 times and in every page at least it says sumthink about the alphabet. there was no alphabet before bible because the bible was when god was made

What bible did you read?

EDIT: Also, how many times you have read something doesn't really matter. Understanding what you've read is way more important.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

i think there should be no more letters cuz its a sin to make letters its in the bible

...An alphabet was created before the bible. Also the bible never says you can't change the alphabet.

have u read the bible? because i have, 7 times and in every page at least it says sumthink about the alphabet. there was no alphabet before bible because the bible was when god was made

...The bible was written during the time of Jesus. The world was invented (supposedly) a few thousand years before that. Also, explain the different languages? Was god multilingual? And while your at it, did a few guys invent a few dozen languages, punctuation and all (ignoring languages they would never have encountered, or the fact that the Romans were writing way before the bible was written) in their short lifetimes?