Re: Question about "do"

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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