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

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> 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.).
Yes, of course, seeing what "makro" and "brevis" mean. Funny that
one is in Greek and the other in Latin :-)

   Irina

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