[XeTeX] Off topic (interesting) question

[Eric Streit]

Hi,

an interesting conference about the 'French orthographe" and how it was 
defined (and, no, this was not logical at all).

The conference is in French, but with subtitles, I hope you can understand.

Orthograph was used to separate the "vulgus pecus" from the "educated 
people". It was never meant to be accessible to everyone.

And it's why, you have the "f" sound, for example for "une photographie" 
written with "ph" and not "f" like in many other latin languages.

Best regards

I had fun listening to this conference.

Eric

Le 20/08/2022 à 17:25, George N. White III a écrit :
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> On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 6:23 AM Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX 
> <xetex at tug.org <mailto:xetex at tug.org>> wrote:
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>     Hi everybody,
> 
>     Many readers of this mailing list are
>     native English language speakers and
>     the following question is for them.
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>     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?
> 
> 
> American high-school I experienced was sadly
> lacking in the reasons behind the “facts” being
> crammed into young minds.
> 
> -- 
> George N. White III
>