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

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

My question is if English language speakerslearn in school why they write history andnot istory. The answer seems to be: No.What you say is completely irrelevant. BTW,languages evolve and brathings were introduced for a reason that does notexist today. So it was to eliminate breathingsfrom Modern Greek. In ancient Greek theletter β  was pronounced as  b but todayit is pronounced as v. So this is yet anothermistake according to your position. For meit is evolution.

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  Στις Σάβ, 20 Αυγ, 2022 στις 14:10, ο χρήστηςYannis Haralambous<yannis1962 at gmail.com> έγραψε:   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 andrepresent 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 therough breathing has not phonetic realization anymore so, according to Saussure and his Greekfollowers it should better disappear…) See https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02480230/document
Yannis


Le 20 août 2022 à 11:21, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX <xetex at tug.org> a écrit :

Hi everybody,
Many readers of this mailing list arenative English language speakers andthe following question is for them.
Someone claimed that English people (I saymore generally English language speakers) learn at school why you write history andnot istory. Since I do not know I'd this holds, Iam asking: Is this true? Does someone whohas graduated from high-school know thereason why this happens?
Kindest regards, 
Apostolos Syropoulos

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