OT - Re: SC - Beef on Kimmelweck

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"Alderton, Philippa" wrote:

> We are doing the best we can with limited fonts and specialist's
> jargon, to explain things to each other as clearly as possible. I'd like to
> be able to use the French accents, I'm sure Adamantius would like to use the
> wonky O from Ostgardr, and I'm sure we'd all like to be able to underline,
> but it just isn't possible for most of us.

More to the point, since most of us can't produce the proper characters
needed to portray such terms with any degree of confidence that the
folks on the other end will get them unscrambled (I can produce slashed
Ostgardrian O's all I want, but most people don't get them!), we
compromise. We willingly and knowingly deviate from the ideal or the
perfect in pursuit of what might be seen as a greater good, in this case
being understood.

One thing about compromises: they're all good for certain circumstances,
and no one compromise solution is intrinsically and universally better
than any other.

Adamantius 
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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