Re: Re : [libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: Text in UI, we do not understand

Hi :)
Thanks :)  So it's something that doesn't happen in English so there isn't really a good name for 
it?  So in other languages it might be easier to shorten it to something that makes more sense to 
people?  

Your original explanation makes a lot of sense; 
"diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's "squiggles" that go above or beside 
another letter to indicate if it's a high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so 
on."
I know exactly what you mean by that because i have seen such marks in many other languages.  The 
technically correct and more official line
"Linguistic symbols for marking tone in tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)"
still leaves the meaning unclear.  In the 1st line, even though i don't know what "diacritic" means 
you explain that well by using the word "squiggles" which is much friendlier.  So, i feel i learned 
something even though the 1st description is still quite short even if it's not short enough.  

Thanks and regards from 
Tom :)  






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> From: Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org>
> To: l10n@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2013, 12:44
> Subject: Re: Re : [libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: Text in UI, we do not understand
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> They are diacritic marks that mark tone in tonal languages, so there's 
> "squiggles" that go above or beside another letter to indicate if it's a 
> high rising tone, a low rising tone, a mid level tone, and so on. 
> There's a better pdf here which actually displays them
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA700.pdf
>
> So saying it in long it would be "Linguistic symbols for marking tone in 
> tone languages that modify another letter (usually a vowel)"
>
> Michael
>
> 13/07/2013 12:21, sgrìobh Tom Davies:
> > The wikipedia page about "Modifier Tone Letters" says
> > "Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone markings for Chinese, Chinantec, 
> > Africanist, and other phonetic transcriptions. It does not contain the standard IPA tone marks, 
> > which are found in Spacing Modifier Letters."
> > but i still don't understand what it means.  More to the point i don't see how to cut it down to 
> > just a couple of words that do make sense.
>
>
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