Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

Irina Rempt wrote:

> I thought a breve was the straight flat line above a vowel like in
> Latin textbooks?
Nope, that's a macron, and marks a long Latin vowel.  The breve is
sometimes used to mark a short Latin vowel when it's important to
make the point (in explaining the versification rules, e.g.).

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