Re: ConGermanicRomanceLang?
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 11, 2000, 1:01 |
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 8:51 pm -0800 9/12/00, Danny Wier wrote:
> [....]
> >
> >Verner's Law: a fricative (f, œ, s) between vowels, if it occurs after
> >the stressed vowel, is voiced: (v, •, z).
>
> Hey, I see an apple there!
>
> Is this from an augmented Roman alphabet? And what's that strange symbol
> between {f} and {s}? It looks like a reverse cedilla to me?
It started as a thorn, but probably got passed through MacRoman somewhere,
which can't handle thorn (or eth, which appears in the next line between
v and z). Now you are seing the garbled code in MacRoman again, and
what you get is an Apple symbol.
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