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From: steven@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: about diacritical marks (danish dynamite)
Message-ID: <6603@boring.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Reply-To: steven@boring.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
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In article <6582@boring.UUCP> jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
> It seems that the latin alphabet is insufficient to almost all languages,
> and that three solutions have been chosen by different
> languages:
...
> 3. Somebody Else's Problem. This means to just use the letters you
>    kind of like for a sound you need, and let other people worry
>    about how to pronounce them. As far as I know, English is the only
>    language that adopted this solution. Two simple examples of the
>    fun this gives : gaol == jail, laughter != slaughter.

Here  are some examples from Dutch:
  balletje (=little ball) != balletje (=little ballet)
  waarderen != goederen
       ^^^^        ^^^^
  shag = cheque