Re: graphemes (was: "textels")

2016-09-20 Thread Christoph Päper
Julian Bradfield : > On 2016-09-19, Christoph Päper wrote: >> If _encyclopedia, encyclopædia, encyclopaedia_ are all legal spellings of >> the same word in a writing system, a useful linguistic definition of >> grapheme should ensure that all three variants have the same number of >> graphemes.

Re: graphemes (was: "textels")

2016-09-20 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2016-09-19, Christoph Päper wrote: > If > > - encyclopedia > - encyclopædia > - encyclopaedia > > are all legal spellings of the same word in a writing system, a useful > linguistic definition of grapheme should ensure that all three variants have > the same number of graphemes. Such a bizar

Re: graphemes (was: "textels")

2016-09-20 Thread Christoph Päper
Dalley Mark (South West Commissioning Support) : > > I think the key phrase is "user-perceived". And you don't need to involve > complex scripts either. > > For instance as an English-speaking person, I would perceive the "æ" in > "encyclopædia" as being two characters (albeit shoved together s

RE: graphemes (was: "textels")

2016-09-19 Thread Dalley Mark (South West Commissioning Support)
I think the key phrase is "user-perceived". And you don't need to involve complex scripts either. For instance as an English-speaking person, I would perceive the "æ" in "encyclopædia" as being two characters (albeit shoved together somewhat). The argument for this is that the word can equally