Re: Pre-1923 characters?

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At 00:00 +0100 2004-01-04, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
>> At 22:37 +0100 2004-01-03, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>>
>> >Note that a fundamental property of character identity is its most common
>> >classification as a vowel, consonnant, or semi-vowel.
>>
>> That isn't true. The letter "v" is a vowel in Cherokee, a consonant
>> in Czech, and (often) a semivowel in Danish.
>
>Also: what are you demonstrating here?

That the fundamental property of character identity of the letter "v"
is NOT its use as a consonant, as a vowel, or as a semi-vowel.

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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