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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by qu4z-2 on Monday July 03, 2017 @06:56PM (#14692066)
What a coincidence that English manages fine with just the letters in ASCII.

Seriously though, what definition of "special Latin characters" are you using? Italian does just fine with fewer...

Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:45AM (#14693596)
G, J, K, U, W, Y, and Z are all characters that aren't used in Latin (in the case of G, J, U, and W, because they didn't exist; in the case of Y, it is used in Greek words but doesn't represent a sound that's possible in Latin; I'm not sure if Z was used in Greek words or not. K is just a Greek letter -- since it represents the sound written with C in Latin, it is never used at all).
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by cronjobber on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:30AM (#14694195)
Sure about the G?
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by Tepix on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @07:34AM (#14695195)
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:34PM (#14696785)
Latin wikipedia isn't exactly an ancient source. Without bothering to read the article, why do you think it has a subhead of "Fontes_de_vita_C._Iulii_Caesaris_praecipui"?
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by cronjobber on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:41PM (#14698786)
I'll take this cum cranulo salis.
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @07:15PM (#14698924)
You think "cum granulo salis" is evidence for G being an original part of the Latin alphabet, while not being evidence that U was an original part of the Latin alphabet?
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by cronjobber on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:12PM (#14699141)
Sure, G wasn't "originally" part of the Latin alphabet—until they invented that letter.
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:13PM (#14699375)
What do you think makes G different from J and U in that regard?
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by cronjobber on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:06PM (#14699562)
Timing. Where do you think G slots in the timeline, relative to the Latin classics?
Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:48PM (#14699862)
G dates to the classical period. But, as I pointed out above, it's still intrusive enough then that Caesar's praenomen, Gaius, is written C, not G. The name is older than the letter, but younger than Latin writing.