elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) (09/22/87)
...on two points.
1. I hadn't noticed that the discussion about accent marks etc. was going
to sci.lang as well as comp.std.internat. I should have edited my
Newsgroups: line before complaining; sorry about that.
2. My wife pointed out that New Testament Greek did indeed use
breathing marks, although they were dropped in medieval Greek.
Even so, accents in European languages using the Roman alphabet are
derived from abbreviation marks, so far as I have been able to determine.
--
Clayton M. Elwell
The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
(614) 292-6546 UUCP: ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!elwell
ARPA: elwell@ohio-state.arpa (not working well right now)