Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 25, 2003, 3:03 |
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Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> Sure. But they're not using French. They're using
> English.
Yes, but the trema isn't English. :-) If you're going to nativize the
word, which I have no objection to, you do it by dropping the diacritic,
not by placing it at random! Either nativize it as Noel, or spell it in
the proper French way.
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