Re: *old response on y and apostrophe

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

LOjbab:
> I have yet to hear an argument against apostrophe that doesn't reduce
> to (predominantly malglico or malropno) aesthetics, or the incompatibility
> of some software with using "punctuation marks" as letters of the
> alphabet - these software products apparently cannot handle standard
> English contractions as well, I presume.

A further argument is redundancy; the <'> is usually nondistinctive
and can be omitted without confusion. Same for glottal stops, if
spaces are left between words.

coo, mie and