[KS] Re: Letter to KH on Romanization

[Henny Savenije]

>As far as I can determine, only Bahasa Indonesian is written in the Roman 
>alphabet with neither accent marks nor apostrophes, and only English and 
>Hawaiian with no accent marks (but apostrophes). The rest of the world's 
>Roman-alphabet languages and Romanization systems make use of accent 
>marks, apparently without any serious worries about "informationization," 
>or resistance to Americanization, or for that matter problems intrinsic to 
>keyboards and computer programs.

Not completely true, Dutch used to use the y with dots in the computer as 
well. Bill Gates in all his wisdom decided it was not going to be used 
anymore, so the Dutch now use the ij instead, I must admit the y with dots 
did look ugly since it didn't fully represent the y with dots in Dutch, but 
now it's altogether impossible, but obviously also acceptable. So accents 
are only used for foreign words, often names coming from German or French. 
But in Dutch itself not anymore.

Thought you wanted to know.



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