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

From:Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...>
Date:Sunday, July 14, 2002, 15:17
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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Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>Dutch "ij"