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--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> wrote: > --- Costentin Cornomorus skrzypszy: > > > The translation (and the real original) is on > > my texts page, and copied here: [...] > > Very cool! I love those multi-register (or > multi-language) texts! Yeah. IB, as we know, is a multilingual place. Britain is as well. Your average Cornishman, Scot and even Bloody Saxon would certainly have some basic competency if not reasonable fluency with the others' languages. It's a cultural norm *there*. It would be a rare Scot that could speak Kerno, but all Cornishmen can speak at least Brithenig, if not a smattering of Scots. I think it might no be unnatural for the Scottish captain to ask in Scots and be answered in Brithenig. At least in literature! > Question: why is there a dot in "domonis.se"? I've only cursorily looked into Kerno typography. I'm considering paralleling the Catalan practice of using the dot to separate "long consonants" [i.e., paral.lelo has three Ls], but I'm nor sure that's really necessary; traditionally, I've used the dot on occasion to separate a conjugated verb and a postpended reflexive pronoun. Other postpended pronouns are separated with a dash; but I need to actually sit down and see if there would be any confusion. Let's see. Well, off hand: "lagouafa.me" vs. "lagouafa-me" would note, typographically, that the first one means "I was was me washing"; while the latter means "thou/he/she was washing me". > > :)Happily I can now read the unicode, but > looking > > below, it seems I can't reply with the > unicode > > intact. > > That's easy: first copy the text you are > replying to into the memory, > then set the encoding to unicode, then replace > the stuff you get now > by the stuff you copied into the memory, and > there you go! Hurk. Too many steps! Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .