Ar 10:02 -0800 2000-04-01, scríobh jon@kanji.com:
>Actually, a vigorous court battle is shaping up over
>
>> a patented 'national variant' strategy
>
>in the state of Montana where the characters like }#$%! are
>essential for proper spelling of the local English variant.
Probably indicative of an educational system which censors the correct
spelling of perfectly common and useful words which I won't write on this
list only because I don't want to start a netiquette war. But those words
don't need such characters to be correctly spelt; ordinary letters a-z do
just fine.
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