Tom Christiansen <tchr...@perl.com> added the comment: Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:21:06 -0000:
> It's not only "typographically speaking", it's really a spelling error, > even in hand-written text :-) Sure, and so too is omitting an accent mark or diaeresis. But—alas!—you’ll never convince most monoglot anglophones of that, the ones who keep wanting to strip them from résumé, façade, châteaux, crème brûlée, fête, tête-à-tête, à la française, or naïveté, not to mention José, jalapeño, the erstwhile American Secretary of State Federico Peña, or nearby Cañon City, Colorado, where I have family. I think œnonlogy has survived solely on its rarity, and the Encyclopædia Britannica is that way because the ligat(ur)ed letter is in their actual trademark. Cell phone users sending text messages have long suffered the grievous injuries to their language(s) that naked ASCII imparts, but this is nothing like the crossdressing nightmare called Greeklish, also variously known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά, or ASCII Greek. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish [...] The reason for this is the fact that text written in Greeklish is considerably less aesthetically pleasing, and also much harder to read, compared to text written in the Greek alphabet. A non-Greek speaker/reader can guess this by this example: "δις ιζ χαρντ του ριντ" would be the way to write "this is hard to read" in English but utilizing the Greek alphabet. I especially enjoy George Baloglou’s "Byzantine" Grenglish, wherein: Ὀδυσσεύς => Oducceus instead of Odysseus Ἀχιλλεύς => Axilleus instead of Achilleus Σίσυφος => Sicuphos instead of Sisyphus Περικλῆς => 5epiklhs instead of Pericles Χθονός => X8onos instead of Chthonos Οι Ατρείδες => Oi Atpeides instead of the Atreïdes Terrible though the depredations upon the French language that may have been committed by ASCII, surely these go even further. :) --tom Η Ιλιάδα H Iliada Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεὰ, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος Mhnin aeide, 8ea, 5hlhiadeo Axilhos οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί’ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε’ ἔθηκε, oulomenhn, 'h mupi’ Axaiois alge’ e8hke, πολλὰς δ’ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προῒαψεν nollas d’ iph8imous yuxas Aidi npoiayen ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν 'hpoon, autous de elopia teuxe kuneccin οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι· Διὸς δ’ ἐτελείετο βουλή· oionoici te naci· Dios d’ eteleieto boulh· ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε eks o'u dh ta npota diacththn epicante Ἀτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν καὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς. Atpeidhs te anaks andpon kai dios Axilleus. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12736> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com