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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: char to decimal
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Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
> On 06/05/2011 20:01, Lew allegedly wrote:
>> Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>>> Michael Wojcik allegedly wrote:
>>>> Joshua Cranmer already mentioned "coöperation" which (along with its
>>>> lemmas)
>>>> is a prominent case of the latter.
>>> Didn't know that, but it's preposterous. Trying to pronounce that
>>> makes me
>>> sound like a Saxon. ;)
>> Trying to pronounce what is preposterous?
>> The word "coöperation" is pronounced the way you've always pronounced
>> it, so I cannot figure out what you mean.
> You won't get it if you don't speak German and know how they speak it it 
> the further south-east. :)

@Lew: I think, Daniele refers to that "ö" in German is not just an "o" 
   separated from the previous vowel, but really a different sound.

@Daniele: Wie sachen's denn die Sachsen? :)

@all: thanks for your elaborations on English use of non-ASCII letters.