Not at all. The question why writing history instead of istory is the same as why writing ἱστορία instead of ιστορία…
> Le 20 août 2022 à 13:08, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropou...@yahoo.com> a écrit > : > > Well this is off-topic to my off-topic question. > > Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android > <https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> > Στις Σάβ, 20 Αυγ, 2022 στις 13:34, ο χρήστηςYannis Haralambous > <yannis1...@gmail.com> έγραψε: > English (and French and German and many other languages) respect words of > Greek origin and > represent the rough breathing in some way (`H' in Latin alphabet, `Г' in > Cyrillic alphabet, `ه' in Arabic, > 'ハ' in Japanese, etc.). > > Greeks themselves have chosen to destroy this cultural heritage by adopting > the monotonic system… > (because of the Saussurian doctrine that only oral language deserves to be > considered, and the > rough breathing has not phonetic realization anymore so, according to > Saussure and his Greek > followers it should better disappear…) See > https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02480230/document > <https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02480230/document> > > Yannis > >> Le 20 août 2022 à 11:21, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX <xetex@tug.org >> <mailto:xetex@tug.org>> a écrit : >> >> >> Hi everybody, >> >> Many readers of this mailing list are >> native English language speakers and >> the following question is for them. >> >> Someone claimed that English people (I say >> more generally English language speakers) >> learn at school why you write history and >> not istory. Since I do not know I'd this holds, I >> am asking: Is this true? Does someone who >> has graduated from high-school know the >> reason why this happens? >> >> Kindest regards, >> >> Apostolos Syropoulos >> >> >> Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android >> <https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> > <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr/> Yannis HARALAMBOUS > Professor > Computer Science Department > UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC > <https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/en/person/yannis-haralambous> > <https://twitter.com/y_haralambous> > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannis-haralambous-5529073?trk=hp-identity-name>Technopôle > Brest-Iroise CS 83818 > 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France > Une École de l'IMT <http://www.imt.fr/> > > Le tact dans l'audace, c'est de savoir jusqu'où on peut aller trop loin. > (Jean Cocteau, Le Coq et l'Arlequin) > <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr/> Yannis HARALAMBOUS Professor Computer Science Department UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC <https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/en/person/yannis-haralambous> <https://twitter.com/y_haralambous> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannis-haralambous-5529073?trk=hp-identity-name>Technopôle Brest-Iroise CS 83818 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France Une École de l'IMT <http://www.imt.fr/> Is it writing? N-no. It doesn't mean what it looks like. (Lewis Padgett, Mimsy Were The Borogoves)
