Re: Diacritics (was: Question about "do")

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

> > Which is also called a "shilling" or a
> > "solidus".
> > Virgule is "," in French. Interesting drift.
>
> I was of the impression that "," had evolved
> from "/"?
Sounds good, though I don't know the truth of the
notion. I've seen some _long_ commas (,) or
_short_ shillings (/) in use. Especially in
French. Almost a halfslash.

Padraic.


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Samlan, isa-susansilo-war-mercumo crastandus, en! mercumes-don-crâgamando, en!
mercumes-dom-resmanstaro haccruçen-fon-Mursilbâm!

And now, the corpse lies limp, lo! even the body of strength, lo! even the body
of Mursilbâm that slew the monster! [Erronian fragment]

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