>Hilmar
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>How come everything involved in your religion has an apostrophe in it? :-)
Oh, while there are other ways to spell some words, this is the standard "transliteration" used in the Bahá'í texts. As I understand it, the accents change the vowel sounds, whereas the apostrophe represents a short pause.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
