Re: orthography and pronunciation

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >> > years. To quote the Swedish physist-novelist Peter Nilson, "in
> >> 2100 they'll wonder why people ceased to write books in 1870".
> >
> >What? So ... they just crumble? Disintegrate? Become dust?
>
> We have a bible printed in 1849 that while the pages are a bit yellowed
> along the edges, the centers of the papers are still fairly white. In
> fact, the paper is still very supple, and it's held up to us looking
> through it from time to time (the cover is in bad shape though. Was my
> mom's family bible).
>
I have an Icelandic newspaper (West Icelandic to be precise, Heimskringla
from Winnipeg, Manitoba) from 1914 (the headline is "Austurrikismenn segja
Serbum strid a hendur" = "Austria declares war on Serbia") which I keep
laid flat between sheets of plexi as the paper is very yellow and very
brittle. Contrast that to a "book" I have from 1795 or thereabouts from
Portugal, in which though the paper is yellowed and the edges are a bit
broken, the middle of it, as Barry said about his bible, is quite soft.

-------ferko
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