On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology student at NSIT, Delhi. > > > > > > I am working on making a Scrabble game as a GSoC project called > Wordsmith. > > > The wiki page is located here - > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble) > > > > Does Scrabble exist in Hindi or any other language of India? > > Sure. > > Either you place one syllable per square or separate the consonants and > vowels > into disjoint glyphs (probably looks funny but remains readable).
That sounds like you're making it up, since you say "probably looks funny". You couldn't make a set with enough tiles to hold the several hundred possible syllables, and the phonology doesn't work to combine random syllables into words of any length. Hindi in separated letters would look more than funny. होली would end up looking like ह ो ल ी, or ह ो ल ी I'm asking whether anybody has _seen_ Scrabble in an Indian language. > > I know > > how we could support Scrabble in any linear alphabetic writing such as > > Cyrillic alphabet, but I have trouble imagining it in Arabic, Chinese, > > Amharic, or Japanese kana. > > I don't know what you would do with Chinese and Japanese kana. -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
