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/



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