- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:19:15 -0400
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, www-style@w3.org
2011/3/18 John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>: > First of all, I'll note that I'm not familiar with any orthography in which > the presence of accent marks on uppercase letters is truly optional. There > was a myth going about for some time that this was the case with French, but > that was due to the mechanical limitations of the typewriter, and if one > consulted quality French publishing, the recommendations of the Imprimerie > nationale, or simply people's handwriting, the marks were always present on > uppercase letters. This has been written in lots of places including the Academie’s official web page. But I won’t call it a myth unless you still call it a myth when real native speakers did it and still do it. That is, I have seen native speakers leave them out when writing. As recent as a few months ago. Maybe a poor orthographic practice, but not a “myth”. -- cheers, -ambrose my thoughts on HTML5: http://goo.gl/vhv5F + http://goo.gl/leonq (thanks and no thanks)
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