OpFARv30@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•If AI can now speak Italian, it can certainly replace us...
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5 months agoIt was widespread in Croatia until the late middle ages, about XIV-XV century.
Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.
I could fluently read and write it in high school. Was bored.
No, there was a poster showing correspondence with Latin on the wall, somewhere. The symbols are almost 1-1 with modern orthography, so it takes only about a week of practice. And I was really bored.
It’s about as distant from modern use as runes are for germanic speakers, but maybe with different connotations. Decorative nonsense.
But I did submit essays written with that when I wanted to fail with style. :)
I also met a guy in college who used it to keep notes. That guy was also bored.