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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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In article <8708171253.AA21033@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
>Just by curiosity, a quick scan of my brain seems to indicate that English
>would be the only European language not to use diacritical marks, digraphs,
>or extra letters. (? - I mean something like the dutch "ij").

Well, it used to be common in English to put a diaresis over the third letter
of "coordinate", for example; but that convention seems to be vanishing.  I
guess the closest thing in modern American English are the apostrophe and the
hyphen -- and we might be better off without those, too.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint