From: Petr Tomasek (tomasek@etf.cuni.cz)
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 15:04:13 CDT
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:36:26PM -0400, William J Poser wrote:
>
> A nice example of the problems created by using apostrophe
> for glottal stop (and glottalization of the preceding consonant)
> is found in Carrier. This convention was introduced in the days
> of typewriters, when apostrophe and right single quote were the same.
> MS Word and other word processors, however, are prone to think that
But this is a problem caused by the Microsoft's hegemony and
it's way of thinking "we are more clever than the stupid user"
not a fault of using apostrophe to denote glottal stop.
>
> Bill
>
-- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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