Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig4.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!tekig5!tekig4!irenas From: irenas@tekig4.UUCP (Irena Sifrar) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.text Subject: Re: Re: troff special chars - naming them (about diacritical marks) Message-ID: <175@tekig4.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 18:05:42 EDT Article-I.D.: tekig4.175 Posted: Wed Jul 31 18:05:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 04:45:21 EDT Reply-To: irenas@tekig4Sifrar.UUCP (Irena Sifrar) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 34 Xref: linus net.nlang:3157 net.text:479 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