Name Game

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:15 PM -0400 6/25/10, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Thass weird. What I assume you meant as a u + grave accent comes out here as
>a u with right hook (ugh!) -- I mean, ogonek, U+0173.
>
>m a m

Yup, I typed it as an "u" with a grave, and it 
came out (here, although not on the version I 
received) as a "u" with a little right hook.  On 
the other hand, your "That's" came out as 
"Thass", and you probably hadn't even been 
drinking.

LH

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>On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
>
>>  At 8:38 PM -0400 6/25/10, Bill Palmer wrote:
>  > >Yesterday WUNC-FM interviewed an NC public
>  > >servant named Sue Dayton.  If she is single, I
>>  >hope her Mr Right turns out to be Mr. Land.
>>  >
>>  >Bill P
>>
>>  Mais o— sont les Sudetenland d'antan?
>>
>>
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