That’s a weird story, Kathryn.

“A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet,…”

One expects that kind of thing from the French, but I though Johnny Turk was a level-headed sort of fellow. Yet another prop to my suggestion that we promote the Kurds having a country of their own, where they can use all the letters they please.

Wonder what math texts look like in Turkey? Mathematicians have long since exhausted the Latin and Greek alphabets & from the late 19th century on have been resorting to Deutsche Schrift (which Hitler disliked because he thought it looked “Jewish”), and actual Hebrew characters (Incidentally, and Hitler notwithstanding, I learned German from school textbooks in England, 1957-60, all printed in Deutsche Schrift. They didn’t make us write it, though. It’s a dog to write.)