capital E

[Steve Marder]

Deanna,

> Dear Seelangers:
>
> I received the following inquiry, and am wondering if anyone can help:
>
> "I'm reading a book on philosophy which uses a capital E with an
>  apostrophe on top. What does that stand for?
>
> Here is a sentence using the character (from a Marxist document):
>
> 'Dialectics, on the contrary, discerns within these seeming
> repetitions an actual (E with ' on top) development from lower to
> higher, an evolution in which the same forms may repeat
> themselves....'
>
> It seems to be used in documents translated from Russian authors."

Perhaps this is pure fantasy, but I would say that the mysterious "E
with ' on top" is actually the mundane "E acute" (decimal: 131;
hexadecimal: 83; unicode: 00C9). It would appear to be used instead of
an ellipsis as a result of incorrect cross-coding.

Steve Marder

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