Re: WHAT calendar for the current year 2012

On Jan 29, 2008 4:06 PM, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Lars Finsen wrote:
>  > Den 29. jan. 2008 kl. 08.50 skrev Philip Newton:
>  >>
>  >> (And I noticed afterwards that I forgot a few accents.)
>  >
>  > I missed some breathing markers too. Are they left out on purpose, or
> > what?
>
> I hope they're left out on purpose, because TAKE doesn't use them    :)
Yes, that was on purpose. And only one kind of accent, not three.

> {quote}
> Josephos Peanou disregarded most of the diacritics invented by the
> Alexandrian grammarians and used in Byzantine and later editions of
> ancient and Koine Greek texts; he retained only two, the acute accent
> (´) to denote stress and the trema (¨) to denote diaeresis.
> {/unquote}
I considered using the diaeresis, but dropped it in the two places I
had considered it (Aifel, naiado) since the digraph <ai> is pronounced
as a diphthong even without the diaeresis.

Where is the diaeresis used, then? For /oy/ and  /Ei/?

...never mind; I just found "Diacritics. 2. Diaeresis" on the
OrthoAndPhono page.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>