[BRLTTY] Contraction errors and patch: Orthopedic

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hello,

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> schrieb am Di, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:55:21 -0400:
>>The syllable schoen should use the e-n sign:
>I think that's completely wrong. In German, the e is another way of saying that 
>the preceding o has an umlaut over it. The e, in other words, belongs very 
>tightly to the o, and not at all to the n. Any English "standard" that insists 
>that "en" be used is showing prfound ignorance of basic German spelling. This 
>is a case where I don't care what the rules say ... if that's what they say 
>then they're wrong.
I don't know who makes the rules, but I learned that "schoen" should be without
an e-n-sign. The e-n-sign is a sign with low
priority and is only used when there is an end-syllable. The "en" in schoen is
clearly in no end-syllable. 

HTH
Sebastian