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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at unagi dot cis dot upenn dot edu
Date: 2005-03-06 14:03:44
Subject: Re: first five accent marks
> Sean, in bt_b0296.pdf, in the second definition "FLYS",
> are the first five accent marks all "acute"?
I'd vote "yes". The difference in the slant of those acutes is annoying, but this is pretty obviously just an artifact of the typesetting. It's previously been noticed. Probably, the guy who typeset it didn't have enough of these special characters in a single shape.
I can't imagine that there's a deliberate contrast between the different slopes of the acute. No other text on Old English that I've ever seen makes such a distinction. Just based on general knowledge of Old English, I don't know of any meaning that could be signified by different diacritics in this context (e.g. something about the etymology, pronunciation, etc.).
--Sean
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| first five accent marks |
Gene Brunner |
Penn State (retired) |
2005-03-05 13:55:47 |
| Re: first five accent marks |
Sean Crist |
Swarthmore College |
2005-03-06 14:03:44 |