Re: creolego "cannibalizes" AND "phagocytates" (wasRe: Gaelic
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 11, 2002, 10:49 |
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--- John Cowan wrote:
> Ah. I thought you were alluding to the Grimm's fairy tale called
> "Iron John" in English that has become so (in)famous here in America.
No. Nor was I alluding to the similarly (in)famous Jan Pieterszoon Coen, whose
nickname was "IJzeren Jan", and who played a rather doubtful role in our
colonial past.
> Officially, of course, that is LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS, not
> an i-j ligature (there is a separate, deprecated, character for that
> in Unicode).
The i-j ligature would be appropriate. The thing I produced with ASCII-code 152
is indeed the character you refer to, but looks pretty un-Dutch to me.
Jan
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