Swiss german, spoken

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Sun Jun 12 02:21:08 CEST 2005


At 20:11 -0400 2005-06-11, John.Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>>  At 00:30 +0100 2005-06-12, Debbie Garside wrote:
>>  >I was not commenting on the particular tag request itself... just the
>>  >principle of allocating tags to "written" and "spoken"...
>>
>>  Ys, but that is bollocks. Every language can be written.
>
>Every language can be *transcribed in writing*, but only some have
>*written forms*, more or less distinct in grammar and lexis from their
>spoken analogues.  The distinction is not a nugatory one.

The tags with we are concerned assume some sort of orthography.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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