Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

Nik Taylor wrote:

> "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~>).
<ue>, AFAIK, doesn't exist as a representation of separate phonemes.
The only places I could imagine it would exist would be in nonnative
vocabulary.

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