Re: creolego "cannibalizes" AND "phagocytates" (wasRe: Gaelic

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Boudewijn Rempt wrote (and hit ctrl-enter
too early):

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> I don't think that's correct at all.
>
What I wanted to add was:

For instance, it isn't the way children are taught in school, and haven't
been taught in school since the seventies. Nowadays they learn to
differentiate between 'lekkere ei' and 'vieze ij' -- tasty ei and nasty
ij. They learn that these sounds consist of a sequence of two letters,
and that they are not one letter, not even ij. When they learn writing
script letters, instead of block letters, they join the i to the j
with the up flourish of the i, not different from any combination of i
and another letter. It looks the same as a script letter y, of course.

Ever since WordPerfect 4.2 added the possibility to enter ij as one
letter (probably induced to do so by an old and out of date description
of Dutch), people have riduculed others who actually used that letter.

It's quite possible that some old-fashioned printers still use a ligature
ij, but that won't be apparatent at all, since the combination is very
rare otherwise, so the possible negative kerning won't show up.

Boudewijn Rempt

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