Re: Question about "do"
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 28, 2003, 18:24 |
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:30:37PM -0500, Carlos Thompson wrote:
> But if you figure out how to write an acuted vowel, you will as easily
> write an acuted n.
True.
> Typewriters are a good example of this. A typewriter optimized for
> languages like French and Swedish might have a deaf key for acute accent
> mark you can use over vowels (or any other letter), while they may lack a
> similar deaf key for the tilde accent mark, and they will surely lack a key
> for the <ñ>. So an n-acute becomes easier than an n-tilde.
Also true. Though in my experience those are usually called "dead"
keys, not "deaf" keys. :)
-Mark