Accents, umlauts etc.

[Resurrection Man]

I'm guessing this is for a PC?

I use TextExpander on the Mac...useful for entering your email address at a stroke although the software is a tad expensive if, like me, you only use it for one or two entries.

[Karafan]

I find this easier to use for German special characters, which I use the most...

http://german.typeit.org/

[Don Petter]

... a mish mash of colour saturation ranging from normal to too bright to black and white - with occasional flashes

Sounds like more than just a missing accent?

[Simon]

I feel so lazy and ignorant when I see Dvorak, Lutoslawski, Karl Bohm and Furtwangler amongst many others written on here correctly.

I don't! I just see accents as a waste of time and effort on this MB. We all know who is referred to by the various names, so IMO it hardly matters.

Of course, in a professional or personal correspondence situation I'd suggest that it does matter, and I'd try to write correctly in whatever language I was using.

[Resurrection Man]

I don't! I just see accents as a waste of time and effort on this MB. We all know who is referred to by the various names, so IMO it hardly matters.

Of course, in a professional or personal correspondence situation I'd suggest that it does matter, and I'd try to write correctly in whatever language I was using.

But where does it stop, Simon? Standards, old chap, standards. Youll be dropping your apostrophes next. Or vn wrs drppng ll th vwls.

[Simon]

But where does it stop, Simon? Standards, old chap, standards. Youll be dropping your apostrophes next. Or vn wrs drppng ll th vwls.

Lol. Never the apostrophes, RM. Nvr tht. Y mght mstk m fr gnggng.

[Resurrection Man]

Lol. Never the apostrophes, RM. Nvr tht. Y mght mstk m fr gnggng.

Hvn frbd

[amateur51]

Lol. Never the apostrophes, RM. Nvr tht. Y mght mstk m fr gnggng.

It's been sweetness and light here since 17 December but now a certain party has returned, the unnecessary sly digs have started

Good to have the evidence tho'

[Resurrection Man]

It's been sweetness and light here since 17 December but now a certain party has returned, the unnecessary sly digs have started

Good to have the evidence tho'

Mmmm... the phrase 'pot' 'kettle' and 'black' springs to mind, my friend

[Simon]

Oh,there have been several humorous digs since then. As was the one above, as GG's idiosyncratic use of the apostrophe is well-known.

However, after I'd posted, several of us anticipated that you'd take the opportunity to try to stir. As you say, good to have the evidence!

That aside, wasn't the 16th the day your your friend had an extremely crude and objectionable post removed?

[amateur51]

Oh,there have been several humorous digs since then. As was the one above, as GG's idiosyncratic use of the apostrophe is well-known.

However, after I'd posted, several of us anticipated that you'd take the opportunity to try to stir. As you say, good to have the evidence!

That aside, wasn't the 16th the day your your friend had an extremely crude and objectionable post removed?

[amateur51]

Mmmm... the phrase 'pot' 'kettle' and 'black' springs to mind, my friend

Any relevant evidence to support this, RM? As I said, it's been delightfully quiet and hassle-free round here until recent contributions, of which there is now ample evidence

[Simon]

Ample evidence indeed.

Keep interfering and stirring as long as you like, amateur - but you'll fail in the end!

[Simon]

Back to the subject after that unfortunate little episode of attempted trouble-causing, which in hindsight would have been far better ignored...

I remember several arguments in the past, mostly whilst a student, about the use of accents. Where they indicate stress, as for example in Spanish, or pronunciation, as with the acute in French, then clearly there's a point. But where they are merely leftovers form past usage or indicators of a long ago change - as I gather is the case with the French circumflex, for example - then one wonders why the bother. (If I'm wrong about the circumflex, no doubt somone will pop in to clarify).

As regards missing vowels, years ago there was a quite humorous text on here of a purported directive from some EU outfit, trying to improve spelling. I'll see if I can find it...***

Interestingly, it's almost always possible to grasp meaning immediately from English texts without vowels. There have been several interesting studies on it.


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*** And here it is: http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/spoofs.php

[amateur51]

Back to the subject after that unfortunate little episode of attempted trouble-causing, which in hindsight would have been far better ignored...

I remember several arguments in the past, mostly whilst a student, about the use of accents. Where they indicate stress, as for example in Spanish, or pronunciation, as with the acute in French, then clearly there's a point. But where they are merely leftovers form past usage or indicators of a long ago change - as I gather is the case with the French circumflex, for example - then one wonders why the bother. (If I'm wrong about the circumflex, no doubt somone will pop in to clarify).

As regards missing vowels, years ago there was a quite humorous text on here of a purported directive from some EU outfit, trying to improve spelling. I'll see if I can find it...***

Interestingly, it's almost always possible to grasp meaning immediately from English texts without vowels. There have been several interesting studies on it.


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*** And here it is: http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/spoofs.php

George Perec's 300-page novel La disparition (1969) is a lipogram, written without ever using the letter "e". It has been translated into English by Gilbert Adair under the title A Void (1994), wiki tells us