Re: A basic question on encoding Latin characters

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Sep 28 1999 - 11:05:18 EDT

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Ar 06:58 -0700 1999-09-28, scríobh Marion Gunn:

>> A rather cavilier attitude, if you ask me. Personally I prefer
>>normalization.
>
>RECTE "cavalier", in Standard English spelling, Michael, albeit an
>understandable error in the context of this, and similars debates.:-)

Marion correctly points out that while "cavalier" suggests an offhand
approach to something, I may have unconsciously been thinking of "cavil",
which refers to trivial objections.

Thanks for the recte-fication.

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