Re: French spelling scheme
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 1, 2001, 0:54 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> > I hate
> > "ö" in my native orthography, for instance, for being the only umlaut
> > character. So Spanish orthography is nice, IMO.
>
> Yet Spanish has ü, and no other umlauted characters.
Really? What does it represent? I can't recall ever seeing that,
although I'll admit to knowing very little Spanish.
> > apostrophes are a pain to type, I'm sure we can agree on that :)
>
> A pain? It's a single character. No harder than typing a space ... how
> is, say, j'aime any harder than j aime? It's the same number of
> keystrokes.
Well, it's off in the corner, and it's pressed with a weaker finger, so
*hypothetically* it's harder to type - although not significantly. I
think j'aime looks better than j aime - the j is all alone in the
second.
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Robert
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