[XeTeX] Off topic (interesting) question

[Eric Streit]

oups, I forgot the link; here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YO7Vg1ByA8

Eric

Le 20/08/2022 à 18:38, Eric Streit a écrit :
> 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 :
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 6:23 AM Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX 
>> <xetex at tug.org <mailto:xetex at tug.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     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?
>>
>>
>> American high-school I experienced was sadly
>> lacking in the reasons behind the “facts” being
>> crammed into young minds.
>>
>> -- 
>> George N. White III
>>