Re: TECH (?) question: diacritics

Expletive "frak" comes from "Battlestar Galactica".  It was used
generally in place of the other f??k word on the '78 series; in the
"reimagined" series it is a much more direct replacement, observed in
just about all the same compounds with the same meanings, literal and
figurative.

The '78 also had a noun "felgercarb", used essentially as "bs", which
so far hasn't made it into the new show.



On 11/5/07, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
> given that "frak" can be interpreted as an expletive (at least that was how
> a
> college roommate of mine used it) perhaps there is something Freudian in
> that
> he is frustrated with the diacritics....
> :-)
> Scotto
> Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
>
> > Is a "withfraki" anything like a FrathWiki?
> >
> > You should be able to get what you want using the Unicode combining
> > chars in all three places.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/5/07, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> > > >>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
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> >
>

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