ChrisA wrote: >On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2017-07-18, Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote: >> >>> That's neither better nor worse than the system used by English and French, >>> where letters with dicritics are not distinct letters, but guides to >>> pronunciation. >> >>>_Neither system is right or wrong, or better than the other._ >> >> >> If that is said just "not to hurt anybody" then its ok. >> Though this statement is pretty absurd, not so many >> (intelligent) people will buy this out today.
>Let me give you one concrete example: the letter "ö". In English, it >is (very occasionally) used to indicate diaeresis, where a pair of >letters is not a double letter - for example, "coöperate". (You can >also hyphenate, "co-operate".) In German, it is the letter "o" with a >pronunciation mark (umlaut), and is considered the same letter as "o". >In Swedish, it is a distinct letter, alphabetized last (following z, >å, and ä, in that order). But in all these languages, it's represented >the exact same way. > >Steven is pointing out that there's nothing fundamentally wrong about >using "ö" as a unique letter, nor is there anything fundamentally >wrong about using it as "o" with a pronunciation mark. Which I agree >with. > Ok, in this narrow context I can also agree. But in slightly wider context that phrase may sound almost like: "neither geometrical shape is better than the other as a basis for a wheel. If you have polygonal wheels, they are still called wheels." Mikhail -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
