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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long
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On Friday 04 December 2009 15:42:56 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Freitag 04 Dezember 2009, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> > If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking
> > shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes,
>=20
> we don't. Because skipping Umlaut, accent&co creates a completly new word.
> Probably one that is already there.
>=20
> Munster is a town
>=20
> M=FCenster/Muenster is a town.
>=20
> You can not drop it. Ever. Only the idiots at cnn and foxnews drop it.
>=20
And there's always a contrary:
In Afrikaans (major ZA language derived from Dutch) there are two accent=20
characters:
=2D deelteken: two dots above certain vowel
=2D kappie: carat-like symbol above certain vowels
In all cases, these characters are used simply as modifiers of the vowel. T=
hey=20
change inflection or the pronounciation of the vowel, not the letter itself=
=2E=20
Sometimes they just make spelling easier:
The verb modifier to indicate past tense is the prefix "ge" and the verb fo=
r=20
eat is "eet". So "ate" translates to "geeet". Three consecutive "e"'s looks=
=20
weird so this word is written "ge=EBet"
=2D-=20
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com