Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 9:54 |
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:
> BTW, people often cite the Dutch keyboard layout as evidence that 'ij'
> is considered a single letter. Whatever the case, keyboard layouts are
> _not in themselves_ evidence, being influenced more by pragmatic factors
> like convenience and appearance. It's somewhat dodgy thinking to suppose
> that they are.
Perhaps better evidence is the fact that reciting the alphabet in
Dutch goes .... w x ij z [ve iks Ej zEt] and that 'y' is not
considered part of the alphabet. It must be specified als "griekse y"
or, in French, "y grec".
Irina
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