From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jul 19 2004 - 04:38:01 CDT
At 22:25 -0400 2004-07-18, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>Though for all that, a lot of Yiddish I've seen is also written
>without vowel-points. So the patah-alef and qamats-alef vowels, and
>the yod-yod-patah vs. yod yod diphthongs, must be distinguished from
>context, like everything else.
For much of the last century standard YIVO orthography has been
preferred, and they are just not optional there.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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