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Yuck, that's ugly. Why did the listserv turn my message into HTML?! On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:41:08PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:34:04AM -0700, Muke Tever wrote: > > True. I was only thinking as far as reading and writing is > concerned, > > not other useful purposes. Still, it's possible to know which > vowels > > are long without worrying how they're written... More so if you know > > where the accent is, etc. > I think the best of all possible worlds is to get in the habit of > *writing* with the macrons, but practice *reading* without them. > When learning a new word, be sure to learn which vowels are long and > practice writing the word out, declining it, conjugating it, whatever, > fully macronned. > For typing instead of handwriting, macronned vowels pose no > difficulties > in modern text editing software thanks to Unicode, but they may not be > the most convenient thing to actually type on your keyboard. So you > can > always substitute something easier like acute accents, circumflexes, > diareses, etc. > Or you can do what the folks on the latinstudy mailing list do in pure > ASCII environments - capitalize the long vowels and leave the short > vowels lowercase. > As for other orthographic conventions: modern Latin pedagogical > practice > seems to use English capitalization conventions and maintain a > distinction between vocalic U and consonantal V, while using I for > both > vowel and consonant; not sure why that is. > -Marcos > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > romconlang-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > _________________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > * To visit your group on the web, go to: > [1]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/ > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [2]romconlang-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the [3]Yahoo! Terms of > Service. > > References > > 1. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/ > 2. mailto:romconlang-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe > 3. http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/