From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.185.201 with SMTP id cp9mr7524060qab.6.1364249370180; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:09:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.28.82 with SMTP id z18mr800345igg.16.1364249370133; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!t2no16499989qal.0!news-out.google.com!k8ni11100qas.0!nntp.google.com!ca1no7024571qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:09:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <980e006c-4c12-46ad-9935-baf8bd85cf5f@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <514e1d12$0$6579$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <4fd11843-5c08-4414-93f1-e396f7caed03@googlegroups.com> <5150a88a$0$6556$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <980e006c-4c12-46ad-9935-baf8bd85cf5f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <884ec8fb-4c00-4e2b-8f77-365846981ca6@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: The letter Sharp S and the English language From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:09:30 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 2626 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:180768 Date: 2013-03-25T15:09:29-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, March 25, 2013 1:12:22 PM UTC-7, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote: =20 > It has been many, many years since I looked at Old or Middle English; how= ever, it would make sense that during the time of the Norman invasion, whic= h created Middle English (French influence), there would be a mix of writin= g styles, just as there was a mix of spellings and pronunciations. As a co= uple of for instances, final "e" was pronounced as in Brook-e, and a combin= ation of French (the court) and English (the commoners) was frequently used= to help ensure clarity of intent as in "Cease and desist!" I think it's also the Normans' fault that we don't have wonderful letters l= ike thorn and yogh and edh in English any more. Too bad. Wouldn't it be b= etter if we could write something like wi=C3=BE Ada.Text_IO; procedure Display_Value (B : Boolean) is begin if B =C3=B0en Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("true"); else Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("false"); end if; end; Clearly our world would be improved if we could write that. Or maybe that'= s just the Guinne=C5=BFs in me talking ... -- Adam