For some reason I can't reply to any post in Carlos' thread above. Agent complains about something.
Carlos ER
Jul 09, 2025
Last reply: 1 year ago
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El 10/07/2025 a las 0:44, john larkin escribió:
Probably the problem is in the accented 'o' in the subject (Apagón)
Oh! He is using ancient software :-D
Well, my Agent is a fairly recent version, amd usenet is ancient - near death - anyhow.
26 should be enough letters for anyone. Do you accent numbers too?
I did not even see the post on this android reader.
Cheers
In Spanish we only have 5 accented vowels. French is worse :-) But we have a consonant with a hat: ñ :-p
English has 44 phonemes - we deal with it by using pairs of letters. The latin alphabet we use served to represent the Latin spoken in Rome, and didn't do a very good job of that either.
Russian Cyrillic uses 33 characters - I learned them when I was undergraduate doing Science Russian.
Korean does have an alphabet which was devised to suit the language, but the Koreans had to kick out the Japanese before it became the official alphabet, a few centuries after it was devised.
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