Abdulhaq Lynch wrote: >> BTW, what is phototastic quadrilateral lingo? >> > > a photatastic quadrilateral lingo _squirly_ is when the tongue does a > loop-the-loop that is clearly visible from all four directions. > Surely you knew that!
By proffesional deformationI thought you wrote phonotactic quadruliteral lingo. My first though was: what the heck has phonotactic to do with this. > I agree the user doesn't need to know the encoding, but technology > workers do. As PCs become affordable in the muslim world more and > more people (system designers etc) will be interested in this type of > work. Referring to these glyphs as intended by their inventors will > make it easy for them to extend our work rather than start from > scratch because of alien terminology that probably doesn't quite > apply 100%. Well, Latin grammatical terminology never worked well for our coastal Germanic dialects, so I never expected it to work for Arabic. I mentioned AFL Beeston because he pioneered - English - grammatical terminology for Arabic on the basis of a profound analysis - taking in traditional scholarship and adding modern linguistics. Anyway, we should be able to do better than producing pseudo-Arabic misnomers like TATWEEL called madd in Arabic). t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
