Ray Brown scripsit:
> But it would surely have been very strange to have two diacritics which
> look so similar and not treat them the same way. Romanian has no |ç|
> (c-cedilla), so putting a comma below |s| and |t| is quite consistent. But
> have a cedilla beneath |c| and a comma beneath |s| would be a tad odd.
> Even if the Turks had done this, all but the pedantic would surely have
> actually written the things the same way.
Fair enough.
> >The normative cedilla has a vertical descender
>
> Normative? Who sets the norm?
French and Portuguese typographers.
> "They are evidently confusing science with technology."
"No, no; your problem is that you're confusing a thing with *itself*."
--Marvin Minsky
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <cowan@...>
"Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram
that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in
5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document
as any, even sans digital signature." --me