the greeks wrote their letters as nouns... the romans? they wrote them as syllables... the greeks intended their phonetic units to be said... the romans, with their tetragrammaton sieve catch, worth of h... to be sung... the greeks ennobled their letters to the status of nouns... the romans? pathetic blah blahs; might as well have been reduced to onomatopoeias; the romance, in the tongues spoken by the italians, the french and spanish? a word not spoken, but a word to be sung!