From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri May 25 06:26:42 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 25 May 2007 06:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HrZoF-0001Jw-Fp for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 06:26:25 -0700 Received: from sparkle.rodents.montreal.qc.ca ([216.46.5.7] ident=8V2OnJ7o0xmi4TO8577m6U48EQziDr3hPxKhnvQ4biT) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HrZo0-0001JZ-4c for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 06:26:15 -0700 Received: (from mouse@localhost) by Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10134; Fri, 25 May 2007 09:25:59 -0400 (EDT) From: der Mouse Message-Id: <200705251325.JAA10134@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Erik-Conspiracy: There is no Conspiracy - and if there were I wouldn't be part of it anyway. X-Message-Flag: Microsoft: the company who gave us the botnet zombies. Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:22:08 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V6 #82 In-Reply-To: References: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4666 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners >> 3/ Are there any accents or special letters in Dutch, i.e. letters >> other than the 26 letters of the English alphabet? > Yeah, but mostly in loanwords. A common one is any vowel with an > umlaut, to point out that it should be pronounced separated from the > preceding identical vowel. Um, doesn't that make it a diaeresis, rather than an umlaut, then? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B