Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!dartvax!andyb From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Problems with Esperanto (the diacritical marks) Message-ID: <2704@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 16:46:33 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.2704 Posted: Thu Jan 17 16:46:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 03:48:18 EST References: <37@osu-eddie.UUCP> <2251@randvax.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 27 > My main gripe about Esperanto is the funny diacritical marks. Makes it > really awful to read on the net, as one poster recently remarked. > > Jim Gillogly La "Sesdek Reguloj" de Esperanto enhavas rimarkon, kiu diras Presejoj, kiuj ne posedas la literojn ^c, ^g, ^h, ^j, ^s, ^u, povas anstata^u ili uzi ch, gh, hh, jh, sh, u. Sed mi opinias, ke tio estas pli malbela ol la supersignoj anta^u la literojn. * * * * * (For those who want a translation:) The "16 Rules" of Esperanto grammar have a note indicating that the accented letters ^c, ^g, etc., can be replaced with ch, gh, respectively, if your press is not capable of printing the accents. My feeling is that this alternative is even uglier than the accents before the letters. Andy Behrens {astrovax,decvax,cornell,ihnp4,linus}!dartvax!andyb.UUCP andyb@dartmouth.CSNET andyb%dartmouth@csnet-relay.ARPA