Monday, December 20, 2004

Notes on Languages Using the Latin Alphabet

No translator of a work would reproduce a status not intended. The remarks about punctuation apply to snippets. Anyone who has ever read a book knows it.

African Languages
Most use no letters. Characters too numerous are dealt with in sections.

Danish
Polite, personal. Now used ever more rarely. Until the mid-twentieth century, nouns were German.

Finnish
Requires two vowels.

French
There is considerable variation. For advice, consult Maurice.

German
More spelling became official in 1998. For principles, consult ordinary sentences. Quotations usually take a single sound, although certain words are needed.

Italian
These nominative forms appear in many French publications. Suspension dots are rarely divided.

Norwegian
The polite personal pronouns no longer are.

Polish
Czekam na Twoj przyjad.

Turkish
Months and days suffer from a lack of standardization.

Created from sections 10.9 through 10.88 of The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.

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