On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Rajesh Mehar rajeshme...@gmail.com wrote:
The little I know of the simplified Chinese character set is that it is a
set of 2 dozen or so pictograms that are then combined with each other to
get other pictograms for other sounds.
Could anyone else elaborate
Thanks for the corrections Charles. Anybody knows enough about Arabic to
explain?
And maybe Meera can clarify the meaning of her original question?
You're welcome - and to fix a bad sentence above one of my favorite
examples of why trying to represent Chinese phonetically is nearly
impossible is the poem...
which means it's also a great example of the disconnect between written and
spoken Chinese languages. Famously in the past sometimes
Tamil, like French, relies on fairly strict contextual rules for when the
same symbol (example, க in Tamil, c in French or g in Italian) should be
pronounced as k or g. So, there may not be a one-to-one symbol to sound
mapping, but mapping within the prescribed context is always consistent.
For
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 21:20 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote:
donations to the ALS Association
Why ALS?
Not saying that its not a good cause but it's not the first thing that
springs to mind when I think of the burdens of mankind.
shiv
Surely humankind is capable of addressing more than one problem at a time?
jrs
On Aug 21, 2014, at 1:07 PM, SS wrote:
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 21:20 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote:
donations to the ALS Association
Why ALS?
Not saying that its not a good cause but it's not the first
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph k...@kingsley2.com
wrote:
. Kannada also exhibits
this same tendency to a lesser extent - I've come across a few examples,
but nothing comes to mind immediately.
Of all the Indian language scripts that I have come across (admittedly not
On 21-Aug-2014, at 9:30 am, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I don't always agree with Seth Godin's pronouncements, but this one
got me thinking - both about 'slacktivism', my response to it, and
the often facile denigration of this behaviour as being facile.
Thoughts?
Udhay
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 14:29 -0400, John Sundman wrote:
Surely humankind is capable of addressing more than one problem at a
time?
Yes, but that is a general reply that does not answer my specific
question? Why ALS? Why not, for example, Pontine Glioma?
shiv
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:14 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but that is a general reply that does not answer my specific
question? Why ALS? Why not, for example, Pontine Glioma?
One answer to that (which is, obviously, not the only answer) is 'whim'.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N))
I think it's a combination of things.
-- ALS is a syndrome with which many people are at least passively aware --
it's Lou Gehrig's Disease, etc. So raising awareness is more a matter of
reminding people (easy) than educating them about something of which they know
nothing (hard);
-- it has
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:14 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 14:29 -0400, John Sundman wrote:
Surely humankind is capable of addressing more than one problem at a
time?
Yes, but that is a general reply that does not answer my specific
question? Why ALS? Why not,
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