At 13:03 03/08/02 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
>I don't know
>of any alphabet that uses all of the characters (ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ, ỹ).
A few years ago the European Commission quite seriously proposed abolishing "ñ": it added complications and was only used by transpyrenean garlic-eaters anyway. [This was about the same time as the French were proposing to abolish â: and it wasn't even April 1st]. The proposal was defeated after a short but acrimonious debate.
When Spain's turn for the 6-month European presidency came round, they had to choose a logo - you can't have a presidency without one, apparently - and so they came up with...
e+tilde.
They claimed that the "e" stood for Europe and the "~" for I don't know what... but I think it stood for elegant revenge.
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