Ar 15:28 -0800 2000-11-22, scríobh Tex Texin:
Which brings up the question, when do we encode the
comic book (non-spacing) zig-zaggy-balloon-thingie that goes around
the text for pow!, biff#@!, bam%$#!, and shazam! ?
Asmus and I are looking into this.
Of course there is the question, should
For what it's worth, in this oh-so-important discussion... I have seen this length
mark used with both Katakana and Hiragana (I suppose that puts me in the good company
of 'Leven Digit Boy, only he can prove it and I can't). Call the usage nonce or
whatever... So what? It would be fair to
On 11/22/2000 04:06:59 PM Rick McGowan wrote:
I suppose the bicameral name of this thing, U+30FC KATAKANA-HIRAGANA
PROLONGED
SOUND MARK, is one of those Great Mysteries Buried in Time, the answer to
which
only Dr. Whistler knows. (I would lay a handful of soft currency on the
truth
of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And I, on the truth of the proposition that the aforementioned Dr. Whistler
could provide at least a summary of the contents of The Yellow Lined Paper
Manuscript and of the interpretations and reactions of said manuscript by
various parties, if not a facsimile or the
The Venerable Dr Whistler wrote:
I'm sure there is, but I can't lay hands on it right at the moment.
It's sitting in a box in the basement somewhere.
Uh... He probably meant to write:
"Yes, it's right here ahem as you can see from Diagram 7,
it's part of the thin banded layer right above
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
...The place you'll see this usage of the prolonged sound
mark fairly frequently is in Japanese comics, which are rather
loose and inventive in their use of spellings and "paraspellings"
to convey tone of voice and other prosodic information.
Which brings up the
As other people commented, there is nothing in principle that prevents
Japanese from writing Hiragana with the elongation mark U+30FC. The
Japanese Language Council can recommend all they want but the "spirit of
language" has its own will as it has always been in any language. In
fact a
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