[XeTeX] Off topic (interesting) question

[John Was]

Ahem, that would be vulgare pecus...

On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, 17:55 Eric Streit, <eric at yojik.eu> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
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