Re: orthographical question.
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 1, 2001, 0:56 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>During colonial days, Indonesian used e-breve for schwa (vs. {e} for [e,
>E]). Somewhere in the 40s they switched to {e} schwa vs. {é}, much more
>sensible since {e} is very frequent, {é} not. Then in 1972 they
>eliminated
>all diacritics, so now you just have to _know_ which is which. Hmmph.
And then you have Tagalog which doesnt use any accents on words, even
though proper stress is crucial to knowing the meaning. If i were to
reform it, i would make set a rule that accents had to be written.
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