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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: more diacritical marks...
Message-ID: <1561@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 13:14:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1561
Posted: Mon Aug 19 13:14:22 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 04:46:11 EDT
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Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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<*****flame on*****>
What a chauvinistic diatribe!  You might as well support removing the
letter 'W' from the "English" alphabet since many languages don't have
the sound and you can just as well use "ou" or a similar combination to
represent the sound.

In article <487@talcott.UUCP> tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>If you can't come up with a very good linguistic reason for
>keeping your specific national characters, I think you
>should re-consider your position: most computers happen to
>be made in America, most typewriters do not have *your* national
>character set, programming languages use those codes that
>you are using for national characters for punctuation, and
>most people neither know nor care about your special way
>of arranging words in a dictionary or how to write your
>national characters. 

<*****flame off (but I'm still burning)*****>
-- 
=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
	"To feel at home, stay at home.  A foreign country is not designed
	 to make [one] comfortable.  It's designed to make its own people
	 comfortable."  Clifton Fadiman