Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site kuling.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!kuling!andersa From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: about diacritical marks (danish dynamite) Message-ID: <780@kuling.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 03:51:46 EDT Article-I.D.: kuling.780 Posted: Sat Aug 17 03:51:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Aug-85 06:50:41 EDT References: <1065@diku.UUCP> <763@mcvax.UUCP> <1070@diku.UUCP> <775@mcvax.UUCP> <642@kvvax4.UUCP> <483@talcott.UUCP> Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden Lines: 21 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! I don't see why a certain feature in literal art should be annoying. EVERY letter is a "leftover" from earlier versions of that letter, not only those which fall apart when lifted from the paper... What do you say about "W" then? To me, it's a typical "double V" and is in Swedish properly handled as a kind of "V" (and why is it in English pronounced "double U"?). And if those periods are annoying, then we should perhaps remove them from "i" and "j" also? If the vast majority of all computers were produced in Russia, would you suggest giving up the "annoying" Latin/Roman alphabet and start writing Cyrillian? Anders Andersson ...!seismo!mcvax!enea!kuling!andersa