On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:11 PM, John Jenkins wrote:
You go down to your local cybercafe to read your email from your
grandmother telling you all about your nephew's bar-mitzvah.
Unfortunately, your local cybercafe has no modern Hebrew (or Yiddish)
installed, but they *do* have a Phonecian
Elaine Keown
Tucson
Hi,
What is a 'diascript' ? --Elaine
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Michael Everson scripsit:
What is a 'diascript' ?
Dean's attempt to invent a new term for the gigantic bucket he thinks
Hebrew is.
Not new, not invented; as I said, already in use in French, German, and Dutch.
By analogy with diaphoneme, presumably; an abstract representation which
can
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark E. Shoulson
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:47 PM
To: Dean Snyder
Cc: Unicode List
Subject: Re: Archaic-Greek/Palaeo-Hebrew (was, interleaved
ordering; was, Phoenician)
Dean Snyder wrote
Jony Rosenne wrote,
There is another option - to postpone the decision. If the question is
controversial, and consent impossible to achieve, this is often the best
choice.
If it is impossible to achieve a consensus, it's disingenous to suggest
that a decision be postponed until an agreement
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jony Rosenne wrote,
There is another option - to postpone the decision. If the question is
controversial, and consent impossible to achieve, this is often the best
choice.
If it is impossible to achieve a consensus, it's disingenous to suggest
that a decision be
Michael Everson wrote:
One last try.
At 16:21 -0400 2004-05-14, Dean Snyder wrote:
Michael Everson wrote at 7:29 PM on Thursday, May 13, 2004:
At 11:44 -0400 2004-05-13, Dean Snyder wrote:
It's your dogmatic assertion that Phoenician/Palaeo-Hebrew is a
different
script (in the ENCODING sense of
Michael Everson wrote at 7:29 PM on Thursday, May 13, 2004:
At 11:44 -0400 2004-05-13, Dean Snyder wrote:
occur side by side FOR THE SAME TEXTS IN THE SAME LANGUAGE.
In DIFFERENT SCRIPTS.
It's your dogmatic assertion that Phoenician/Palaeo-Hebrew is a different
script (in the ENCODING sense of
Dean Snyder wrote:
My question is, do you really care what ANYBODY says about encoding or
not encoding Phoenician, or has your mind been made up for 10 years and
nothing can change it now?
But they *DID* listen to what people had to say about it. Some said one
thing, some said the other. A
At 16:21 -0400 2004-05-14, Dean Snyder wrote:
[repetition deleted]
Pete oun maaje mmof esotm maref sotm.
-- Gospel of Thomas 21.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
At 16:21 -0400 2004-05-14, Dean Snyder wrote:
[repetition deleted]
Pete oun maaje mmof esotm maref sotm.
-- Gospel of Thomas 21.
Exegesis for the rest of us:
Thomas 21, Verse 10. Nag Hammadi Coptic text original
*transliterated* into Latin script. Translated
usually as:
He who has
At 16:42 -0700 2004-05-14, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Pete oun maaje mmof esotm maref sotm.
-- Gospel of Thomas 21.
Exegesis for the rest of us:
Thomas 21, Verse 10. Nag Hammadi Coptic text original
*transliterated* into Latin script. Translated
usually as:
He who has ears to hear, let him
One last try.
At 16:21 -0400 2004-05-14, Dean Snyder wrote:
Michael Everson wrote at 7:29 PM on Thursday, May 13, 2004:
At 11:44 -0400 2004-05-13, Dean Snyder wrote:
occur side by side FOR THE SAME TEXTS IN THE SAME LANGUAGE.
In DIFFERENT SCRIPTS.
It's your dogmatic assertion that
Michael Everson wrote at 3:08 AM on Thursday, May 13, 2004:
At 21:34 -0400 2004-05-12, John Cowan wrote:
Remember that Phoenician in this context includes Palaeo-Hebrew, an
we *have* seen evidence that this script is mixed with Square in the
same text, though not in the same word.
Remember that
Dean Snyder wrote:
Is there time to get an Archaic Greek proposal on the June UTC agenda? I
can write this up fairly quickly.
Yes, there is time. All script proposals need to be in a week before the
UTC, by June 7. For something that is likely to be controversial, I would
recommend two weeks
Dean Snyder wrote at 11:44 AM on Thursday, May 13, 2004:
Do you want to interfile Fraktur and Roman German?
Of course, what I meant to say was, Do you not want Fraktur and Roman
German interfiled?
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
At 10:16 -0700 2004-05-13, Lisa Moore wrote:
Is there time to get an Archaic Greek proposal on the June UTC agenda?
There might be time, but there is no reason to make such a proposal.
Archaic Greek is already handled by Greek. It even includes archaic
letters like QOPPA. There are some letters
At 11:44 -0400 2004-05-13, Dean Snyder wrote:
Michael Everson wrote at 3:08 AM on Thursday, May 13, 2004:
At 21:34 -0400 2004-05-12, John Cowan wrote:
Remember that Phoenician in this context includes Palaeo-Hebrew, an
we *have* seen evidence that this script is mixed with Square in the
same
Michael Everson wrote at 7:01 PM on Thursday, May 13, 2004:
There might be time, but there is no reason to make such a proposal.
Archaic Greek is already handled by Greek. It even includes archaic
letters like QOPPA. There are some letters missing, like HETA, but
those can be added in due
Elaine Keown
Tucson
Hi,
There might be time, but there is no reason to make
such a proposal.
Archaic Greek is already handled by Greek. It even
includes archaic
letters like QOPPA. There are some letters missing,
like HETA, but
those can be added in due course.
I
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