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Posted Jan 11, 2009 2:18 PM
Ioannes, there is no language, which is using the Latin alphabet and is not using compound letters for one phoneme. And the apostrophe is used for different purposes, therefore it does not make sense to use it instead of the "x". Especially Slovaks will get confused with it!
I meant "latinized keyboards" - the Slovak is one of them. On the other hand you are right - even the Slovak keyboard uses "compound letters" for one phoneme, e.g. CH (German type).
The same X is used for different purposes but I don't think that the Slovaks would have any problems with confusing with it. Sometimes I write in Slovak using the apostrophe instead of " makc'en' " and everybody knows that apostrophe is instead of this " makc'en' ".
On the other hand I tried to use X for softenning but nobody knew how to pronounce it.
They knew it just after my explanation what that's for.
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