Re: Icelandic language (was Re: World Pidgin Suffices)

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Subject: Re: Icelandic language (was Re: World Pidgin Suffices)
>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:08:57 -0400
>
>Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> > However...
> > I refuse to go out of my way to write edh; the thing is, [D] is not a
> > phoneme in Icelandic, but merely an allophone of /d/. There is no more
> > reason to have a separate character for this sound than there is in
>Spanish
> > (which has a similar pattern in the /d/ phoneme). Or should Spanish be
> > written like this?:
> >
> > "Eres de Maðrið, ?verðað?"
>
>Well ... Spanish doesn't write it out, but Icelandic does.  I mean,
>there's no problem with using non-standard spellings in e-mail, I use
>"tho" and "thru", for instance, but if you're talking about how
>Icelandic is written, it would make sense to conform to the standard
>spelling.  Just my .2 dime.
Please don't mistake my ferociousness for an attack on you personally :) I'm
more attacking Icelandic orthography. Don't we all have some criticisms on
our native orthography?  But yes, it does make sense to conform to the
accepted way of writing. I'm not the kind of weirdo who exhibits all my
"eccentrisms" to strangers. That is, I also haven't gone out of my way to
_not_ write 'edh', only to have people correct my writing or ask me why I
write it "wrong". However, if the character 'ð' is not available or
feasible, I would campaign for 'd' being used as a substitute.

Oskar
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