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

From:Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 18:56
--- Phillip Driscoll <phild@...> wrote:
> Adam Walker wrote: > > > > > Costentin Cornomorus wrote: > > > In short, Noël is French, Noel/Nowel(l) is > English, > > > Nöel is neither. > > > > It grates. Sorta like the increasingly common > > spelling of cafe as c-a-f-e-'. Yes, with an > apostrophe > > at the end rather than no mark at all or an acute > over > > the e. > > Back in the 1970s, I used to print business cards on > an > old press in my garage. Several people ordered cards > from me to advertise their services doing macramé. > They > always spelled it m-a-c-r-a-m-e-' with an apostrophe > (which I corrected when I set the type). > > Recently I saw some hand-made jars for sale at an > art > fair. They were lettered "jalapenõs." > > 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. > > --Phillip Driscoll
There's an apartment complex near me that has a sign reading "Se habla Espano~l"* Whatever _that_ is. Adam *I can't type an o-tilde. ===== Il prori ul pa&#38621;veju fi dji atexindu mutu madji fached. -- Carrajena proverb