On 14/01/2008, John Douglas Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the keyboard of Yanick Champoux [12.01.08,18:50]:
*dieresis* or *diæresis *A diacritical mark (* ¨ *) optionally
used in
English, oftentimes replaced by a hyphen. In English, the dieresis
is used on
a second identical
From the keyboard of sebb [14.01.08,12:21]:
On 14/01/2008, John Douglas Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the keyboard of Yanick Champoux [12.01.08,18:50]:
*dieresis* or *diæresis *A diacritical mark (* ¨ *) optionally
used in
English, oftentimes replaced by a hyphen. In
sebb wrote:
The rule seems to be: second vowel of a pair=dieresis, otherwise umlaut.
I'd call the symbol in Brontë a dieresis, not an umlaut. Maybe: when
the symbol indicates the vowel is to be pronounced further forward in
the mouth, it's an umlaut; when it indicates the vowel is to be
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:16:42PM +0100, Georg Moritz wrote:
From the keyboard of sebb [14.01.08,12:21]:
The rule seems to be: second vowel of a pair=dieresis, otherwise umlaut.
Any counter-examples?
yup, two examples:
German:
geärgert (been angry)
- here the second vowel is an
sebb wrote:
On 14/01/2008, John Douglas Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the keyboard of Yanick Champoux [12.01.08,18:50]:
*dieresis* or *diæresis *A diacritical mark (* ¨ *) optionally
used in
English, oftentimes replaced by a hyphen. In English, the dieresis
is used on
a second
David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At that point, a vote was taken, and the result was that some other
accented character like ý or something made it in at the expense of
. What did get in were the decidedly less useful Æ and æ ligatures.
Quite interesting discussion over all, but also
On Jan 14, 2008, at 16:42, David Landgren wrote:
What's next, welcome to the reäl world?
Well, no, because the a isn't pronounced as a separate vowel. On
the other hand, we may start seeing references to El Camino Reäl in
Silicon Valley.
--
Craig S. Cottingham
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