Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote: >> But if the reader merely removes the diacriticals, > > He means, I think, that the reader ignores them, not knowing what they > mean.
Same thing. If the reader ignores the diacritic, he is reading one letter as another, and so he is not really using the transliteration scheme, but an ad-hoc transcription scheme based on it. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/