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

--- 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.

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