A 19:14 2001-11-30 -0800, John Hudson a écrit :
>At 21:33 11/30/2001, Etienne Kroger wrote:
>
>>"Le bon usage" (Grevisse) suggests that people have traditionally not used
>>accents in manuscripts/handwriting, but recommends to apply accents on
>>print.
>
>This is interesting, and a good subject for someone's doctoral thesis.
>There should be no shortage of manuscript/handwriting samples from various
>periods to dismiss or confirm this claim, or to map it's historical veracity.
[Alain] I believe that for cursive handwriting indeed, the tradition is
quite consistent over centuries for initial capitals not bearing accents.
Alain LaBonté
Québec
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