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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 9 of 10 18 April 2011 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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The origin of this (so I'm told) was in the printers' workshops in Paris.
A fount (set of individual letters for printing) was more expensive to make and slower to use (hence more expensive again -- time is money!) than one without. The printers therefore ditched capitalised accents as a competitive measure. It fed into people's writing (because people write the way they see things written) but with digital printing, there's no need for it any more so the accents are coming back. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5099 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic | Message 10 of 10 19 April 2011 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
Many things in many peoples' writing look like smeared lines, so I'm sure you'll be fine. =] 1 person has voted this message useful |
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