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Re: Question about "do"

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Monday, July 28, 2003, 18:25
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:19:40 -0500 Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
writes:
> In handwriting I have seen horizontal strokes (like macrons, but > usually > shorter), vertical strokes... very occationally grave slanted > strokes, etc. > -- Carlos Th
- If i remember correclty, when my brother was taking Spanish, in his handwriting he would use a macron for both accents on vowels and tildes on N's. ObConlang: When talking on IRC with the creator of the conlang Vendi, which is supposed to use macrons over some of it's vowels, he would spell macron'd vowels as vowel+|'|, and i would write them with a falling accent: i.e. he would write |e+macron| as |e'| and i would write it as |è|. In the Rokbeigalmki alphabet, accent marks (that look just like Latin acute/rising accents) developed from horizontal macrons. Similarly, the apostrophe that binds case-prefixes to words was originally also horizontal, looking like a raised hyphen (to distinguish it from the normal, middle-of-the-letter-height hyphen). -Stephen (Steg) "juss came to say, goobbye luff, goobbye luff..." ~ not quite 'rent' (but that's how it sounds)

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