Hi :) Thanks :) So it's something that doesn't happen in English so there isn't really a good name for it? So in other languages it might be easier to shorten it to something that makes more sense to people?
Your original explanation makes a lot of sense; "diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's "squiggles" that go above or beside another letter to indicate if it's a high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so on." I know exactly what you mean by that because i have seen such marks in many other languages. The technically correct and more official line "Linguistic symbols for marking tone in tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)" still leaves the meaning unclear. In the 1st line, even though i don't know what "diacritic" means you explain that well by using the word "squiggles" which is much friendlier. So, i feel i learned something even though the 1st description is still quite short even if it's not short enough. Thanks and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Michael Bauer <f...@akerbeltz.org> >To: l10n@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2013, 12:44 >Subject: Re: Re : [libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: Text in UI, we do not understand > > >They are diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's >"squiggles" that go above or beside another letter to indicate if it's a >high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so on. >There's a better pdf here which actually displays them >http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA700.pdf > >So saying it in long it would be "Linguistic symbols for marking tone in >tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)" > >Michael > >13/07/2013 12:21, sgrìobh Tom Davies: >> The wikipedia page about "Modifier Tone Letters" says >> "Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone markings for >> Chinese, Chinantec, Africanist, and other phonetic transcriptions. It does >> not contain the standard IPA tone marks, which are found in Spacing Modifier >> Letters." >> but i still don't understand what it means. More to the point i don't see >> how to cut it down to just a couple of words that do make sense. > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
