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Re: ASCI ANSI again
Dear Patricia,
Gee, the ligatures came through in my E-mail reader, which I've set
to ISO 8859-1. Even Tolkien would have found your orthography
unobjectionable.
Carlo
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Patricia M Godfrey wrote:
> OK, sorry everyone. I just got a chance to really look over the past few
> days' posts, and see that my attempt at Old English (in Valediction; it
> was supposed to be Waes haeil, with the ligature ae in both words) got
> transmogrified into Greek (lowercase mu). At first I thought the Net
> Gremlins (Ngemlins?) had been at work, but then I remembered a discussion
> back in Oct of 02 about Xy's ASCI vs. Win's ANSI. Programs aren't the
> only things with memory leaks.
>
> But it must have been the Ngemlins that ate the final _a_ in "audita" in
> Michael Norman's elegant Latin tag.
> Patricia
>