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Re: R: Re: R: orthographical question.

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Saturday, March 31, 2001, 20:23
Frank George Valoczy sikayal:

> > True. I'm pretty sure that Hungarian uses i-hacek, though, and the only > > difference between a breve and an hacek is pointiness. You're right, > > though, the i-breve would look very Romanian. And the i-breve was used in > > Romanian in older (circa 1700) orthographies. The Romanian sample at > > christusrex.org has a passage with breves over every vowel except o! > > > > Having Hungarian as my first language I can say that Hungarian does not > use i-hacek. I don't think I've seen that even in ancient texts.
Hmmmm. I was so sure that I'd seen it somewhere that I tracked down the book I saw it in and found the phrase: 'malenkii robot', written with an hacek over the second 'i'. The book, BTW, is _The Man Who Loved Only Numbers_ about Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos (double-acute on the 'o'), and the quote is on page 103. Just so I can be verified :-). Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." -G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ Conlanger code: CLI> l%p+++ cS:R:N:H a++ y n18d:6 X+++ A-- E-- L-- N2.5 Idmp k++ ia-- p+ m++ o+++ P d++ b++ Yivríndil

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