[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Rheingold

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2010/12/04 at 11:03 -0500]

>Although Rheingold isn't a word in the ordinary sense, it's famous
>enough (the title of an opera by Wagner) that I think it deserves to
>be contracted right. I have only one example of its use in my
>Web-Braille collection:
>
>  8,n 9 ! l1/4 ,he ?"| .,rhe9gold 0 "s

I'm no authority, of course, but I completely disagree with using the "in" 
contraction here. The reason is that the "ei" combination makes a very specific 
sound in German, and, as I see it, that should take precedence.

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