25 Nov
2018
25 Nov
'18
4 p.m.
On 11/25/18 3:53 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
It's been enlightening!
:-)
Some I was ready for.
E.g. In French or Spanish, both of which I can speak to some extent,
letters like ? or ? are not seen as separate letters: French would call
them a-acute, an a with an acute accent. ? is a c with a cedilla. Etc.
If they are not seen as separate letters, then do their meaning's
change? Or is the different accent more for pronunciation?
But in Swedish/Norwegian/Danish -- I speak basic
Norwegian and rudimentary
Swedish -- ? and ? and ? and so on are not a or o with accents on:
they are _different letters_ that come at the end of the alphabet.
I assume that they have different meanings (if that applies to letters)
and are uses as different as "A" and "q".
Czech is like that. ? and ? and ? and many more that
my Mac can't
readily type are _extra letters_ which come after the unmodified form
in the alphabet.
~twitch~
I don't even know how to properly describe something that visually looks
like letters (glyphs?) to me, but may be an imprecise simplification on
my part.
Without them, you can't write correct Czech.
It's worse than writing
English without the letter E.
Usually you can guess but not always.
Byt means flat, apartment; b y-acute t means the verb "to be".
You can probably work that out, but you can't always. A restaurant
menu would be hopelessly corrupted as both "raw" and "with cheese"
are quite likely.
Indeed.
Sure, my office street name: K?i??kova
K, r ha?ek, i, z ha?ek, i acute, k o v a.
I had to zoom my font to see enough detail in K?i??kova, but it does
look like things came through just like you describe. (They even made
it through my shell script that I use to re-flow text in replies.)
A hacek is like an upside down circumflex: ^
Also known as a caron.
ACK
Oh yes. It's quite a minefield.
/me blinks and shakes his head.
Czech keyboards have so many extra letters, the
*numbers* are on shift
combinations!
~chuckle~
Well yes.
I believe Mr Corlett here rejects all mail from gmail.com -- except
mine... ;-)
?\_(?)_/?
--
Grant. . . .
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