Re: Orthography help needed
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 6, 2004, 19:12 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:19:01PM -0400, Trebor Jung wrote:
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>>What are those characters? They aren't readable by me.
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>Which is one of the reasons I'm reluctant to include them in the
>orthography. I'd like to stick to Latin-1 if possible.
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>The characters are edh, eng, thorn, and theta, respectively. At
>least edh and thorn are in Latin-1, so these should be legible:
><�>, <�>. I might end up admitting them, but I'm reluctant to
>introduce unfamiliar letters.
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You know, I don't really like calling it 'edh', because that diagraph is
ufamiliar to English, and that's not the sound it has represented in
English either(at least not consistently). I really do prefer 'eth'.
In my opinion, <þ> would be better than theta, being both in Latin-1,
and from the Roman alphabet(of the Germanic flavour).
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