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

On Sunday 14 July 2002 16:53, you wrote:
> #
> # En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
> #
> #   I write it in my checkbook as
> # > "Meÿer",
> # > though in script it could just as well be "ij".
> #
> # Dutch people write "ij" normally as a single letter too, and it is
> normally # indistinguishable from ÿ.
> #
>
> I've always wondered about the dutch "ij"... people say this all the time,
> and as i've never actually seen a dutch person write in dutch, i'm really
> not sure what this means... is this only in cursive? print? Would one
> ever write an actual ÿ in dutch?
>

If you write cursive script, then a j after an i looks like ÿ. But actually
printing it is silly. Nobody does it. It's two letters, just like the e and
i in ei.

> Maybe some kindly dutch person could write a sample and scan it in?
My handwriting has completely gone to pot since I started putting in
my daily twelve hours at the keyboard, I'm afraid.

--
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org

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