A circumflex “specially prolonged” vowels; according to Appendix E of
The Lord of the Rings, only in Sindarin, but the Ambar Eldaron Quenya
Dictionary [1] also has some very few circumflex words (sû, lîs), so
let’s support the circumflex in Quenya as well. Marking extra-long
vowels with two colons seems to work well and is also done in several
other languages.
[1]: https://ambar-eldaron.com/telechargements/quenya-engl-A4.pdf
Long vowels, marked with an acute accent or a circumflex, are longer
than short vowels (duh) and always make a heavy syllable (i.e. we don’t
include the rules to move stress to the previous syllable). In Quenya,
⟨é⟩ and ⟨ó⟩ are “tenser and ‘closer’” than the short vowels, according
to Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, while in Sindarin they’re
supposed to be the same; the phonemes we inherit from Latin seem to
reproduce this reasonably well for Quenya, and for now we use them for
Sindarin too, which works nicely for the most common Sindarin word with
a long o, “Lothlórien” (because Lórien is actually a Quenya name, and
therefore I assume *that* ⟨ó⟩ should actually be /o/ and not /ɔ/). I
might adjust the phonemes later (at which point Lothlórien will
presumably have to go in sjn_list).
In Elvish languages, ⟨ch⟩, ⟨dh⟩, and ⟨th⟩ count as single consonants for
the purposes of stress, since they represent single letters in the
original scripts. The easiest way to implement this is to replace them
with single letters at the beginning – ⟨ð⟩ for ⟨dh⟩ and ⟨þ⟩ for ⟨th⟩ are
natural, and ⟨x⟩ for ⟨ch⟩ also makes some sense, though it means we need
to replace real ⟨x⟩ first (it’s not mentioned in Appendix E of The Lord
of the Rings, but does occur in some Quenya words, notably Helcaraxë).
Real ⟨x⟩ is pronounced like /ks/, but of course we need to spell that as
⟨cs⟩, since ⟨k⟩ does not occur in Elvish languages.
With bash, echo "a\nb" will not interpret \n, while with dash, echo will
interpret \n. bash's echo would need -e, but dash does not know that
option and just prints it.
We can however just put \n litteraly in the script, both bash and dash
will understand it.
With bash, echo "a\nb" will not interpret \n, while with dash, echo will
interpret \n. bash's echo would need -e, but dash does not know that
option and just prints it.
We can however just put \n litteraly in the script, both bash and dash
will understand it.
The replacement tests for bs, hr, and sr are no longer marked as
broken as they work using the old code. The mk tests keep the
broken annotation, as they don't work in the old code either.
This reverts commit 801a8d197c.
This reverts commit 64d5701e5e.
This reverts commit 3b51ebf617.
This reverts commit 1fd235d2c0.
This reverts commit 9f0667de86.
Lucas Werkmeister