Dear Harry,
As far as my knowledge of Danish reaches, the / has the same effect on the
pronunciation as the German Umlaut (transferring a written 'o' into a
spoken 'eu'). This is also true of Swedish, but I do not know about
Norwegian. The reason why the / and even the Umlaut are often omitted in
other languages is that these languages (such as English) do not know the /
or the Umlaut. In order to get to the same pronunciation, they replace
these signs by for instance oe as in Moerch. The German Umlaut has the same
effect as adding an 'e' to the normal vocal (see: Röding to Roeding) as Mr.
Nister already mentioned.
Unfortunately, I do not know what the Danish / is called.
As a matter of fact, it has everything to do with different sound-systems
in the different languages.
Oops, I hope I have not bored you all to death with my explanations, and
that I am not too much showing off with this talk, but this was at least
one question I could answer partially (glad I am studying Germanic
languages).
David.
Belgium.
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> From: Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Aurthors
> Date: maandag 17 april 2000 0:28
>
> Dear Harry, Andrew V. et al.,
>
> I am not much on Germanic languages, but I have noticed that recent
literature
> features a change in the diacritical mark in the name of the great Danish
> malacologist, Otto Andreas Lawson Moerch (1828-1878). Malacologists have
been
> dutifully placing an umlaut over the "o" of his surname for over a
century.
> Apparently that's not de rigeur (see; I DO know a little French). Some
> contemporary writers have eschewed Mörch in favor of Mørch. Can anyone
confirm
> that these revisionists are correct in this action? European
subscribers,
> linguists, anyone? Also what do you call the / in ø?
>
> Harry
>
>
> At 03:31 PM 4/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Harry J Berryman wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All;
> >>
> >> With all the talk about authors I thought I would ask for a little
> >> different version.
> >> I am intrigued with the old work typing like:
> >>
> >> Linnæus
> >> Röding
> >> Müller
> >>
> >> Does any one know of others?
> >>
> >> Thank You
> >>
> >> Harry Berryman
> >> Xenophora Nut
> >
> >How about Morch, Muhlhauser, amd Schroter ?
>
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> oo .--. oo .--. oo .--.
> \\(____)_ \\(____)_ \\(____)_
> `~~~~~~~` `~~~~~~~` `~~~~~~~`
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