Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:43:24 -0500, Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
wrote:
> There's a café on my way home from the train station. It's apparently
> called Socrate's Café, but they have so many different ways of setting
> the apostrophe and acute that I'm not sure---including using an acute
> accent
> for the apstrophe (where the apostrophe should be) and a (curved)
> apostrophe for the acute (where the acute should be). They never have
> <Cafe'>, though. Mostly either <Cafe> or <Caf'e>.
A new café here in Denver recently opened has the acute accent right in
most places on their advertisements and cards and whatnot, though the big
sign out front has a grave: Cafè.

>> Over the years, I've become amazed at the number of
>> people who have a four-year college degree, but have
>> never taken as much as one semester of a foreign
>> language in either college or high school. Invariably
>> they believe that learning another language simply
>> consists of memorizing long lists of corresponding
>> words with no thought that the grammars might be
>> different.
>
> Really? Here (Victoria Australia) it's compulsory to do a foreign
> language for some of secondary school (and I think all of primary
> school, I haven't met anyone who didn't).
Where I went to university I wasnt allowed to take language courses
because I had had courses in high school within four years.

Rather, I was allowed, but credit would not be given me for them.
The high school did require two classes' worth, though.


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