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Cottontail
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
In fact Cymru does keep every one of its cities - Bangor, Cardiff, Newport, St Davids, St Asaph and Swansea remain open for business.
But the famous station on Ynys Môn, with its extensive fifty-eight character name, has ceased to be. On ten-and-one counts, indeed.
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LeRoc
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But I think that the Ll continues? It's a different character.
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Ariel
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No. You just typed that with two of the ordinary ones, no? There's no dedicated key for that combo on the keyboard.
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Drifting Star
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An interesting point. A Cymraeg keyboard with a separate key for [that double lettered character] might render it in the correct manner. An ordinary keyboard trying to type in Cymraeg, however, cannot function.
[ 31. January 2016, 18:11: Message edited by: Drifting Star ]
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
But I think that the Ll continues? It's a different character.
Whether or not it continues, you can't write the name of the bishop and son of Powys's king whose church is commemorated towards the end of the name of excessive size.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
A Cymraeg keyboard with a separate key for [that double *ettered character]
For what?
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LeRoc
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For the ỻ.
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Banner Lady
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It must, I am certain, even up society as we know it, for there can be no tit*es conferred and no meda*s given. My awards are safe, and I guess so is the crown, for we may continue to have a queen. I can go to the doctor, but not a *awyer or a so*icitor. I guess that means more money in the bank for the average person. And that horrid word 'norma*' has gone for good.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
For the ỻ.
Whatever that is doesn't show on my screen. It's just a square.
Ife wi return to norma at some point soon, I'm sure.
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LeRoc
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I guess you don't have the Cymraeg font on your computer.
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BroJames
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
I can go to the doctor, but not a *awyer or a so*icitor.
Courts remain, advocates, barristers attorneys, judges and magistrates. So may be not so much extra money in the pocket after all.
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ArachnidinElmet
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oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Ann
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This reminds me of a book I read a few years ago.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Or 'The Thirteen Clocks and the Wonderful O', by the equally wonderful James Thurber ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons.
I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
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LeRoc
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Hedgehog: I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
Ooh good one! I hadn't spotted that.
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
A Cymraeg keyboard with a separate key for [that double *ettered character]
For what?
Where the deficient character is used twice in succession, as it often is in Cymraeg, the two characters represent a separate character.
See this connecty thing.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons.
I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
Dagnamit, you're right.
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W Hyatt
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons.
I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
And I count just 19 consonants because I think you have to drop the one near the end with the appearance of two V's stuck together.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them.
Where did the "nothing but consonants" come from? We're missing just one.
In any case, it won't be much different to txtspk, which continues to be in fashion, so I'm sure we can work round it if it happens.
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LeRoc
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Ariel:Where did the "nothing but consonants" come from? We're missing just one.
What is the name of the things we use to write with but which are not consonants?
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Ariel
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The point of this thread was to focus on one missing consonant. I'm asking how the Arachnid got from that to the idea of "there won't be anything but consonants".
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LeRoc
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There won't be any vo…
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Beenster
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Darnit. I don't *ike it. I appreciate the humour there.
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If you wisp, you can tawk as normaw. Awthough you wiww sound very babyish.
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