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Re: Diacritics in XW for E-Mail
- Subject: Re: Diacritics in XW for E-Mail
- From: Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:13:21 -0700 (PDT)
" At 10:30 AM 6/27/01 +1000, Wolfgang Bechstein wrote:
" >Similar arguments are being used against abolishing the upper case/lower
" >case distinction in German ("ich habe in moskau liebe genossen" can mean
"
" Yep. Or "wenn fliegen fliegen fliegen fliegen hinter fliegen her."
"
" >ambiguities exist in every language, reformed spelling or not, and they
" >are usually easily resolvable by context.
"
" But that is no reason to open the door for a whole flood of new
" ambiguities, when we have a perfectly fine, working, and established system
" for avoiding them. And just why should every language be spelled like English?
" -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo
You mean spelled like Nederlandse, Dutch.
Daniel Say