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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6772 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 17 of 39 25 June 2010 at 8:18am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You missed Catalan's double l with the mid-dot.
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5331 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 18 of 39 25 June 2010 at 8:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
All of those letters are very cool though, in my opinion (especially þ and ð for some reason). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6146 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 19 of 39 25 June 2010 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes, I read about that when I was looking up the diacritics for that language but I didn't think that would count... Shall I add it in, do you think? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5700 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 20 of 39 25 June 2010 at 8:34am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Why, IPA of course—and they're adding new ones all the time!
I'd like to add that aesthetically, while I normally love me some diacritics (especially on consonants), Vietnamese takes it way too far. If I'm not mistaken, there's a special circle in Dante's Inferno, where the damned have to spend an eternity typesetting Vietnamese on an infinitely long printing press. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5700 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 22 of 39 25 June 2010 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I have not encountered exectra and to my knowledge, it isn't used in English. It doesn't show up in any dictionaries, and unless there's a subtle joke here I'm missing, I believe you're mistaken. Most commonly I see it rendered as either et cetera, or the abbreviations: etc. or (my personal favorite) &c. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5452 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 23 of 39 25 June 2010 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Khoekhoe language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoekhoe_language#Sample_text And one of the proposed Latin alphabet orthographies for Ubykh: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ubykh.htm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| orion Senior Member United States Joined 7025 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 24 of 39 25 June 2010 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I agree, I find diacritics to be visually non-pleasing also. In my opinion written Vietnamese is one of the ugliest looking languages, but I suppose that is to be expected when French speakers try to devise a Roman alphabet for a tonal Asian language. It is unfortunate that the Vietnamese did not adopt something like the Japanese kana or the bopomofo used in Taiwan. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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