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Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question.

From:Scott W. Hlad <scott@...>
Date:Sunday, April 1, 2001, 17:37
Bingo!
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On > Behalf Of John Cowan > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:59 PM > To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > Subject: Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question. > > > Frank George Valoczy scripsit: > > > That's the thing...it's wasn't. Umlaut was with a tilde, this > was clearly > > a breve, and in a place where you wouldn't have umlaut, example the u in > > flugzeug (second u that is). > > Maybe it was similar to the mark used over Cyrillic i in old-fashioned > Russian handwriting, that makes it easier to read; it shows which > up-strokes go together. > > -- > John Cowan cowan@ccil.org > One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore > --Douglas Hofstadter