From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Jul 04 2004 - 01:51:37 CDT
Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
>> But if the reader merely removes the diacriticals,
>
> He means, I think, that the reader ignores them, not knowing what they
> mean.
Same thing. If the reader ignores the diacritic, he is reading one
letter as another, and so he is not really using the transliteration
scheme, but an ad-hoc transcription scheme based on it.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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