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

On 23 Oct 2003 at 19:41, Ray Brown wrote:

> It has led to the ignorant abomination of 'Nöel' (and I
> kid you not) which appeared in a advertising campaign
> here a few years back.  But, of course, for most Brits
> 'Nöel' is just as good as 'Noël' - it just some foreigners'
> "umlaut accent" which doesn't matter one way or another.
AFMCL, the Thagojian alphabet (not the syllabary) has made a
similarly bad  bastardisation of the trema, using it to mark
asyllabic vowels (rather than a syllable boundary), and has at the
same time, through some quirk of scribal method, turned it into a
circumflex symbol. I haven't yet figured out the native term for this
diacritic, but I suspect it will remain cognate with "diaeresis".

Here, I curse my non UTF-8 mail client for not allowing me to paste
an example. Here's a quasi-example:

{hais'at} /hAjZAt/ (goat) is written {hori alpha iota+circumflex s'ei
alpha tou}




Paul