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Re: French spelling scheme

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Monday, April 30, 2001, 22:01
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:19:51 +0200, Christophe Grandsire > <christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > > ><sob> I *love* diacritics!!! So nice and esthetically pleasing. They make > >reading less boring :)))) . > > I agree with you, but for a shorter distance :) I like acutes, but I > find many different types of diacritics intermingling to be messy; I hate > "ö" in my native orthography, for instance, for being the only umlaut > character. So Spanish orthography is nice, IMO.
I think diacritics are nice to an extent. I think latinised Serbian/Croatian are the upper extent, Hungarian and Czech are slightly over the limit, and Vietnamese is just obscene...As for Icelandic o-umlaut (sorry, I can only use 7-bit ascii on this compu...), what would you write it with? Maybe that 'o' with the little tail? (O-cedilla?)
> >So "paille" > "palle"? :) What about words like "ail"? > > "all"? The advantage is more apparent in "feuille" > "folle" ("foille" and > "foile" being ambiguous, if "oi" is to retain its value).
I think he means garlic, which is pronounced [ai:l], more or less, in my bastardised French. -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Suurt chugunikka peene ahjo suhe et toukka. Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz

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