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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Pinyin
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:43:12 GMT
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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 05:22:41 GMT, in article <E3GxLt.216@midway.uchicago.edu>, Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
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>	There's a world of difference between accepting a few diacritics
>and accepting a whole new script.  As others have pointed out in their

We don't have to go that far. I would say there's a world of difference
between accepting a few diacritics and accepting even one additional
letter. "" and "", for example, are often printed "th" even in books.

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