Re: mixed-script writing systems

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On 2002.11.15, 20:59, Jim Allan <jallan@smrtytrek.com> wrote:

> Even if so, if a typographical compromise has often occurred it could
> have been forgotten in time that it was originally a compromise, and
> the substituted symbols might now be thought to be the correct ones.
> In that case, they indeed they now are correct ones.

Taking the subject to another thread (sort of), this, I'm sure, is the
mechanism behind the question cedilla vs. comma-bellow in Romanian.

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