On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:33:53PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Lusercop wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > > > ... H lp! S m b d st l ll th v w ls fr m m k yb rd! > > > > This is totally inconsistent, at the very least, "y" should be either a > > vowel or not, it can't be both, as above... > Nope : <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel> > (there's probably some algorithm on CPAN to decide whether some > particular english 'y' acts as a vowel or a consonant, but I'm > a bit tired right now to look it up.)
Rubbish! If someone stole all the vowels from your keyboard, then you have to decide whether "y" is a vowel or not, in order to decide whether or not to steal it. You can't steal two of them from the above text, and still leave one. Context is king. -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002
