what if we just typᵉd silent E’s in superscript. likᵉ this
anyway i’m just saying setting a letter in superscript is a transparent way of encoding additional meaning without making things difficult to read for existing speakers
what if we just typᵉd silent E’s in superscript. likᵉ this
anyway i’m just saying setting a letter in superscript is a transparent way of encoding additional meaning without making things difficult to read for existing speakers
*puts on orthographic history glasses* 👓 but Lady, considering the history of germanic umlaut, don’t you run the risk of the superscript E being further reducᵉd to a simplᵉ diacritic? lik̈ this, for exampl̈?
*takes off glasses* but you see, dieresis on the preceding consonant is already the function silent E is performing