<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Not at all. The question why writing history instead of istory is the same as why writing ἱστορία instead of ιστορία…<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 20 août 2022 à 13:08, Apostolos Syropoulos <<a href="mailto:asyropoulos@yahoo.com" class="">asyropoulos@yahoo.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Well this is off-topic to my off-topic question.<div class=""><br class=""><div id="ymail_android_signature" class=""><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android</a></div> <br class=""> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;" class=""> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;" class=""> <div class="">Στις Σάβ, 20 Αυγ, 2022 στις 13:34, ο χρήστηςYannis Haralambous</div><div class=""><<a href="mailto:yannis1962@gmail.com" class="">yannis1962@gmail.com</a>> έγραψε:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;" class=""> <div id="yiv2334922189" class=""><div class="">English (and French and German and many other languages) respect words of Greek origin and<div class="yiv2334922189">represent the rough breathing in some way (`H' in Latin alphabet, `Г' in Cyrillic alphabet, `ه' in Arabic,</div><div class="yiv2334922189">'ハ' in Japanese, etc.).</div><div class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"></div><div class="yiv2334922189">Greeks themselves have chosen to destroy this cultural heritage by adopting the monotonic system…</div><div class="yiv2334922189">(because of the Saussurian doctrine that only oral language deserves to be considered, and the</div><div class="yiv2334922189">rough breathing has not phonetic realization anymore so, according to Saussure and his Greek</div><div class="yiv2334922189">followers it should better disappear…) See <a shape="rect" href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02480230/document" class="yiv2334922189" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02480230/document</a></div><div class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"></div><div class="yiv2334922189">Yannis<br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"><div id="yiv2334922189yqt40302" class="yiv2334922189yqt4105633188"><div class=""><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"><blockquote type="cite" class="yiv2334922189"><div class="yiv2334922189">Le 20 août 2022 à 11:21, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xetex@tug.org" href="mailto:xetex@tug.org" class="yiv2334922189" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">xetex@tug.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="yiv2334922189"><div class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"></div><div class="yiv2334922189">Hi everybody,</div><div class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"></div><div class="yiv2334922189">Many readers of this mailing list are</div><div class="yiv2334922189">native English language speakers and</div><div class="yiv2334922189">the following question is for them.</div><div class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"></div><div class="yiv2334922189">Someone claimed that English people (I say</div><div class="yiv2334922189">more generally English language speakers)</div><div class="yiv2334922189"> learn at school why you write history and</div><div class="yiv2334922189">not istory. Since I do not know I'd this holds, I</div><div class="yiv2334922189">am asking: Is this true? Does someone who</div><div class="yiv2334922189">has graduated from high-school know the</div><div class="yiv2334922189">reason why this happens?</div><div class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"></div><div class="yiv2334922189">Kindest regards, </div><div class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"></div><div class="yiv2334922189">Apostolos Syropoulos</div><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"><div id="yiv2334922189ymail_android_signature" class="yiv2334922189"><a shape="rect" id="yiv2334922189ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" class="yiv2334922189" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br clear="none" class="yiv2334922189"><div class="yiv2334922189">
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