-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2011 11:59 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Tres Seaver writes: > >> FWIW, I was taught that Spanish had 30 letters in the alfabeto: >> the 'ñ', plus 'ch', 'll', and 'rr' were all considered distinct >> characters. > > That was always a Castellano vs. Americano issue, IIRC. As I wrote, > Mr. Gonzalez was Castellano.
- From a casual web search, it looks as though the RAE didn't legislate "letterness" away from the digraphs (as I learned them) until 1994 (about 25 years after I learned the 30-letter alfabeto). > I believe that the deprecation of the digraphs as separate letters > occurred as the telephone became widely used in Spain, and the > telephone company demanded an official proclamation from whatever > Ministry is responsible for culture that it was OK to treat the > digraphs as two letters (specifically, to collate them that way), so > that they could use the programs that came with the OS. > > So this stuff is not merely variant by culture, but also by > economics and politics. :-/ Lovely. :) Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5hHswACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7m9ACeOJZRgjcm9pd0Rnry26zP0I3t 53cAoLv78VD5eIdbjvboLaysoeREIp1t =0PuR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
