Re: TECH (?) question: diacritics

>>Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
>>I'm pretty sure there are no a's with double acute in Hungarian,
>>though it does have both o and u with double acute.
>Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
>And more's the pity; I could have used a with double acute recently
>to go with o and u.
It's a real bummer.  I have to use three sets of graphemes: one for my
word processor (which allows me to combine double acutes with a, e, i &
ø), one for Withfraki (which has the double grave accent over the five
vowels, but then I need combine one for over ø), and one for this
conlang list (for which I've pretty much stopped using diacritics).

The diacritics are not really necessary.  I use them to show pitch.  A
native speaker would know the pitches and their placement is easy to
learn.  But they do give an "exotic" look to the language.

For some reason I don't find the double grave accents as esthetically
pleasing as the double acutes.  I guess it's all in what one is used to.

Charlie

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