Re: Tildes on vowels (Erkenwald)

From: David Possin (dave_i18n@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 12:19:00 EDT


I am wondering if the statement on that web page "gh=German ich-laut"
is applicable. Wouldn't Dutch "gh"-laut make more sense, like in "van
Gogh"?

That sound is a bit softer than the German one, as far as I remember,
maybe matching the Russian sound better.

Dave
--- Tom Gewecke <tom@bluesky.org> wrote:
>
> >As a visual aid in this discussion, I put the St. Erkenwald
> manuscript
> >passage online here:
> >
> > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/st-erkenwald.html
>
> On Mac OS X, this displays correctly with OmniWeb 4.1, but other
> browsers I
> have (IE, Mozilla, Chimera Navigator) all mess it up one way or
> another.
>
>
>

=====
Dave Possin
Globalization Consultant
www.Welocalize.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locales/

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