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Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 16:07
--- Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Costentin Cornomorus > wrote: > > > I never liked umlauts. Even when they're > > appropriate in English (coöperate, etc.). > Plus, I > > always have to look up the codes, whereas I > have > > the ups, downs and chapeaux memorised. > > That isn't an umlaut, it's a diaeresis.
Same thing, in English. There's "umlaut", the vowel variation in man/men; and there's "an umlaut" which is the little doololly Germans use to indicate umlaut, and that some English writers use to distinguish two vowel sounds from a single (oo v. oö = [u] v. [oo] or [oO]). I understand dieresis to be a synonym for the latter, the symbol, and an infrequently used one at that. Padraic. ===== - Nos côsez yen fin xristianós et trancouil - Côsez-el a Ddon! -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .