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From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: about diacritical
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 10:27:27 EDT
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In article <483@talcott.UUCP> tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>
>Diacritical marks, contracted letters, and special characters are
>not a sign of cultural identity -- they are annoying leftovers from
>a time in which people used to do most of their writing with a pen
>(or a brush, on the other side of the world). Let's hope they'll
>soon get out of fashion!
>
>						Thomas.

I might have missunderstood you, but I like to stress that for a
Swede oA, "A and "O are L E T T E R S and nothing else, and removing
them from are language, would also be removing a bit of our
cultural identity.
On the other hand I find it quite annoying with computers who don't
know the alphabet  (Placing oA after "A) and who uses letter as
array indicies and similair