Re: French spelling scheme
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 1, 2001, 17:21 |
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At 20:03 2001-04-30 -0400, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
[Replacing Icelandic o-umlaut]
>That's the problem; I don't have any acceptable solution there. I find the
>o-tail prettier. If I were allowed to change it without further ado, I'd
>select o-slash, in accordance with most other Nordlangs.
So would I, and at the same time introduce o-slash and ae-ligature in
Swedish too. I can appreciate that Gustaf Wasa & co. desired Swedish to
look more unlike Danish, but why make it more similar to German? Today it
is in any case just an obstacle to inter-nordic readability to have this
orthographical difference.
/BP 8^)>
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