Friday, October 19, 2018

Previews of coming attractions

Longer post coming tomorrow. Like, at least a few paragraphs, and maybe including a multimedia component as well. I want to make sure I have a clear head while writing it, and now I'm too much in the neighborhood of sleep.

Also it's on a book I'm reading, and I'll be closer to finished. But not closer to Finnish, because I could never handle that many diacritic.

2 comments:

susan said...

I've just arrived to leave a note in support of your intention to write something longer and I see it's already done - over on the other side of this comment form. So I will read it now and write again later.

Diacritics can be quite entertaining for those of us raised to read and write without them.

Ben said...

Yeah, when I wrote this entry I was just too tuckered out to do what I'd intended, so I put it off for a day, but felt like I should put something up. Hence this.

Interesting thing about diacritics is that they modify how letters are supposed to sound. Of course, that's their purpose. But they work differently in each language. I'd really need some help in knowing how to pronounce words in Turkish.