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From: irenas@tekig4.UUCP (Irena Sifrar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.text
Subject: Re: Re: troff special chars - naming them (about diacritical marks)
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 18:05:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 18:05:42 1985
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Andries Brouwer writes:
>1. Accents on top
>
>- Grave accent (`) occurs in many languages in `a `e `i `o `u ;
>  Slovene `r
>
I have never seen `r in Slovene.  There are no accents on Slovene letters
except when you want to denote the stress (mostly only dictionary
use).  In a way "r" can be one of the stressed letters, as in "mrtev",
but the word is actually pronounced [mer'tev], so the accent actually
falls on the implicit e (sounds like "a" in English, not like "ei").
I'd really like to see some examples of `r, if there are any.

Actually, Slovene does have three occurrences of accent that just have
to be there: hacek on top of c, s, z.  Even if c, s, or z are capitalized,
the hacek remains itself. (see below)

>- When the letter that should get the hacek is tall, then it gets a
>  comma at the upper right instead: Czech has ,d ,t ; Slovak also ,l .
>

>4. Special symbols
>
>Some symbols with a crossbar are
>Polish /l and /L ; Scandinavian /o and /O ; Vietnamese and Yugoslavian
>and Icelandic -d and -D ; Icelandic +d (eth).
>
There is no such language as Yugoslavian.  There is Macedonian,
Serbo-Croatian (slight differences between the two), and Slovene. 
Serbo-Croatian is the most common, even the Macedonians and the Slovenes
can speak in it.  The language of the government is usually Serbo-Croatian,
though at the assemblies people can talk in any of the three above 
mentioned languages.
			Irena Sifrar