Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 13, 1999, 6:45 |
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"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> To be honest, I don't know. But as the inventor was German and,
> presumably, took the three umlauted vowels from his own language (as well
> as the four cases for nouns), the convention has not uncommonly been used
> in emails.
Question: About this, and German's, <ue> convention, does actual <ue>
not exist in German? Because it seems to me that if it did, there could
be confusion over whether <ue> meant <u"> or "really" <ue>, as can
happen at times with the <nn> for <n~> convention in ASCII-fied Spanish;
<nn> is found at times in words, where the prefix in- is added to a word
starting with n- (which is why some use <ny> for <n~>).
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