Ahem, that would be vulgare pecus... On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, 17:55 Eric Streit, <e...@yojik.eu> wrote:
> 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 > > >
