Friday, November 27, 2020

Hervé Bazin's orthography and punctuation (1966)


In his 1966 essay Plumons l’Oiseau ("Let's pluck the bird"), Bazin proposed a nearly phonemic orthography for the French language called "l’ortografiǝ lojikǝ" (logical orthography). In doing this, he proposed six new "points d’intonation" (punctuation marks).

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February 31, 1869

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