Re: Degaspregos

On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 02:14 , Padraic Brown wrote:

Er...Go raibh maith agat?  (I'm sure I'm missing a diacritical or two, and
*very* sure that my pronunciation would be utter mangle-ness, but one has
to start somewhere...)

> Am 09.12.01, Yoon Ha Lee yscrifef:
>
>> On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 09:35 , Christopher B Wright wrote:
>>
>>> First, you have about 35 letters. That means you have to make digraphs
>>> in
>>> plenty and perhaps use some diacritical marks, both of which I try to
>>> limit. Either it makes typing long ("is that alt+0235, or alt+0233?"),
>>> or
>>> it makes the word uglier since it contains punctuation marks. (My two
>>>
>> :-p  My opinion-based comment on this is: what if you like digraphs,
>> diacriticals, or both?
>
> I don't hold with the lot of em. Too foreign. So...my languages
> tend to get by with several sounds corresponding to one letter
> (or letter combinations); and sometimes several different letters
> corresponding to one sound. Byzantine, but in some way satisfying!
>
:-)  Whereas I grew up with God knows how many of those curved
diacriticals in the romanization of Korean, most especially on subway
signs (labeled in Korean and English/romanized Korean as "appropriate").
I have no idea what they're called: they're like upside-down circumflexes,
  except curved instead of angular.

Byzantine?  Perhaps, but as long as it works, it works.  :-)  You can also
get some fun wordplay out of that, too.

>> Math illiteracy affects 8 of every 5 people.
>
> Well, 9 times out of eight, these stats are made up
> half the time anyway!
>
;-)  I *hope* no one takes my taglines too seriously...I do attribute
quotes when known, but otherwise take 'em well-salted....

> By the way, I think the 'official' word is "innumeracy".
It's the term John Allen Paulos uses, but I find that most people I meet
parse "math illiteracy" more quickly than "innumeracy."  <helpless shrug>

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