From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>At 22:11 +0100 2004-01-15, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>The comment from Michael about the occurence of "gW" in Breton was wrong:
I said I had seen it in print, which was true, and I said that it was rare, which is also true. It is not standard.
OK. Then don't say it's Breton
It was Breton.
It may occur in any Latin language, either as a typo
It wasn't a typo.
or within specific technical usages such as variable names in a C or Java program where a space cannot be used to separate words;
It had nothing to do with that.
here also it's not the normal orthograph part of the language, but a notation to allow more descriptive identifiers.
It was done ON PURPOSE by the Breton who did it, in order to show orthographically the original spelling while showing the consonant mutation, a normal feature of the language.
If you accept typos and technical usages, these occurences of "defective" capitalization rules are not rare but not part of the language.
I do not feel chastened. I said what I meant to say, and I subsequently corrected a number of serious errors you made regarding alphabetical order in Breton. Apparently you don't care. Fine: drop it. N'eo ket talvoudus tamm ebet.
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