oups, I forgot the link; here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YO7Vg1ByA8
Eric
Le 20/08/2022 à 18:38, Eric Streit a écrit :
Hi,
an interesting conference about the 'French orthographe" and how it was
defined (and, no, this was not logical at all).
The conference is in French, but with subtitles, I hope you can understand.
Orthograph was used to separate the "vulgus pecus" from the "educated
people". It was never meant to be accessible to everyone.
And it's why, you have the "f" sound, for example for "une photographie"
written with "ph" and not "f" like in many other latin languages.
Best regards
I had fun listening to this conference.
Eric
Le 20/08/2022 à 17:25, George N. White III a écrit :
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 6:23 AM Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX
<xetex@tug.org <mailto:xetex@tug.org>> wrote:
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?
American high-school I experienced was sadly
lacking in the reasons behind the “facts” being
crammed into young minds.
--
George N. White III
