Re: Scripts
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 5, 2002, 22:03 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Scripts
> Joe wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I miss þ and ð. Especially þ, but at least you can still type
them.
> > (who would have thought, ancient symbols still being available on a
computer
> > 800 years after their abandonment)
>
> The Icelanders still use ð and, I think, þ. Problem with þ is it looks
> a lot like "p", so that using it looks like "þornography" to use a
> friend of mine's joke. :-)
>
> Also, Macs show thorn as "fl" for some reason.
>
Ok, so <soþlice> comes out as <sofllice>? Yes, I see what you mean,
especially if you spell thorn as <þorn> ;-)