[hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Everson
Elaine, I really, really, really don't have time to debug your dissatisfaction with the use of the word Aramaic in the Roadmaps. This is NOT something anyone is working actively on right now. When a proposal comes forth, there will be evidence in it that can be picked at. In actuality, one

Re: [hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-14 Thread ekeown
Elaine Keown still in Madison for a few days Hello: Therein lies a problem in attitude: encoding of scripts, and doing it well, takes an on-going commitment and presence from people who have expertise on the scripts in question. It does not happen if an expert sticks

Re: [hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-14 Thread Peter_Constable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/12/2003 01:07:46 PM: It does not happen if an expert sticks her/his head in the door momentarily, makes a few comments and then disappears. Well, yeah, I am an irresponsible fly-by-night. After all, so far I only spent 4 years and 3 months on the Hebrew

Re: [hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-14 Thread Peter_Constable
Peter Kirk wrote on 08/11/2003 01:50:17 PM: But suppose someone like Elaine or myself wants to offer their expertise on a specific script or script family as an ongoing commitment. Is there a way they can do so without having to receive dozens of messsages every day on the Unicode list, the

Re: [hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-14 Thread John Cowan
Peter Kirk scripsit: Maybe the script specific mailing lists are the answer. But is their existence an ongoing commitment, or just a temporary reaction to a temporary burst of activity? Once they have been created, they are not dismantled. -- While staying with the Asonu, I met a man from

Re: [hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-11 Thread Peter Kirk
On 11/08/2003 06:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elaine Keown wrote on 08/10/2003 06:30:44 PM: During this short period, when I am on this list and receiving the enormous volume of mail, I am stating things that I will not be around much to state. Therein lies a problem in attitude:

Re: [hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-11 Thread Peter_Constable
Elaine Keown wrote on 08/10/2003 06:30:44 PM: During this short period, when I am on this list and receiving the enormous volume of mail, I am stating things that I will not be around much to state. Therein lies a problem in attitude: encoding of scripts, and doing it well, takes an on-going

Re: [hebrew] Re: Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-10 Thread ekeown
Elaine Keown Madison Dearest Michael, I really, really, really don't have time to debug your dissatisfaction with the use of the word Aramaic in the Roadmaps. This is NOT something anyone is working actively on right now. When a I'm not writing about