Sept. 5, 2011
5:01 p.m.
Le 02/09/2011 05:59, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :
I believe that the deprecation of the digraphs as separate letters occurred as the telephone became widely used in Spain, and the telephone company demanded an official proclamation from whatever Ministry is responsible for culture that it was OK to treat the digraphs as two letters (specifically, to collate them that way), so that they could use the programs that came with the OS.
So this stuff is not merely variant by culture, but also by economics and politics. :-/
That is a truth for language matters and linguistics, as well as in other domains and sciences. Cheers