On the contrary, under "What to Submit" in the Hacker News Guidelines, we find:
> ... anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
And, yes, it is interesting.
One thing I wonder about: apparently Albanian has the c-cedilla that is also found in French. It was my understanding that the cedilla was originally a small "s" drawn under the "c", to show that it is to be pronounced like an "s". However, according to this article, Albanian pronounces "s" much the way English does, but the c-cedilla is like English "ch". So it seems that, at some point in the distant past, Albanians began writing little "s" marks to show that a "c" is not pronounced like "s". I wonder why.
[EDIT: The Wikipedia article on cedilla is loaded with information. In particular, it appears that I was wrong; a cedilla is not derived from an "s", but rather a "z".]
I agree, I thought that it might be intersting for others as well hence I submitted this article. I am not an expert in this field unfortunately, so if somebody knows more about it, I d be interested to hear more :)
Hi,
I am the writer of http://albaniatourism.info, I am Albanian too. I was made aware today by a friend about the comments here, I don`t know the exact reason of the "c" cedilla, but I would believe it is related to the usage of the same letter in Turkish language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet , representing the same sound "ch". The bases for the Albanian alphabet of today were set in 1865 -1866 (when we were still under Turkish occupation), till then Albanian was written either with latin, greek, slavic or turkish letters. The main guideline for the alphabet was to have one letter per each sound. I have a reference for the history of the alphabet but it is in Albanian: http://books.google.com/books?id=9_gXTda0HS8C&pg=PA191&#...
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 21.2 ms ] threadOn the contrary, under "What to Submit" in the Hacker News Guidelines, we find:
> ... anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
And, yes, it is interesting.
One thing I wonder about: apparently Albanian has the c-cedilla that is also found in French. It was my understanding that the cedilla was originally a small "s" drawn under the "c", to show that it is to be pronounced like an "s". However, according to this article, Albanian pronounces "s" much the way English does, but the c-cedilla is like English "ch". So it seems that, at some point in the distant past, Albanians began writing little "s" marks to show that a "c" is not pronounced like "s". I wonder why.
[EDIT: The Wikipedia article on cedilla is loaded with information. In particular, it appears that I was wrong; a cedilla is not derived from an "s", but rather a "z".]
Somebody from Albania around?
Regarding the website overall, it's nicely done, keep up the good work.
Cheers