Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site enea.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: about diacritical Message-ID: <884@enea.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 10:27:27 EDT Article-I.D.: enea.884 Posted: Mon Aug 12 10:27:27 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 02:05:39 EDT References: <1065@diku.UUCP> <763@mcvax.UUCP> <1070@diku.UUCP> <775@mcvax.UUCP> <642@kvvax4.UUCP> <483@talcott.UUCP> Reply-To: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Followup-To: net.lang Distribution: net Organization: ENEA DATA, Sweden Lines: 17 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