[XeTeX] Σχετ: Re: Off topic (interesting) question

[Yannis Haralambous]

Not at all. The question why writing history instead of istory is the same as why writing ἱστορία instead of ιστορία…

> Le 20 août 2022 à 13:08, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropoulos at yahoo.com> a écrit :
> 
> Well this is off-topic to my off-topic question.
> 
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> Στις Σάβ, 20 Αυγ, 2022 στις 13:34, ο χρήστηςYannis Haralambous
> <yannis1962 at gmail.com> έγραψε:
> English (and French and German and many other languages) respect words of Greek origin and
> represent the rough breathing in some way (`H' in Latin alphabet, `Г' in Cyrillic alphabet, `ه' in Arabic,
> 'ハ' in Japanese, etc.).
> 
> Greeks themselves have chosen to destroy this cultural heritage by adopting the monotonic system…
> (because of the Saussurian doctrine that only oral language deserves to be considered, and the
> rough breathing has not phonetic realization anymore so, according to Saussure and his Greek
> followers it should better disappear…) See https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02480230/document <https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02480230/document>
> 
> Yannis
> 
>> Le 20 août 2022 à 11:21, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org <mailto:xetex at tug.org>> a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> Many readers of this mailing list are
>> native English language speakers and
>> the following question is for them.
>> 
>> Someone claimed that English people (I say
>> more generally English language speakers)
>>  learn at school why you write history and
>> not istory. Since I do not know I'd this holds, I
>> am asking: Is this true? Does someone who
>> has graduated from high-school know the
>> reason why this happens?
>> 
>> Kindest regards, 
>> 
>> Apostolos Syropoulos
>> 
>> 
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