Mike Ayers wrote at 11:13 AM on Friday, May 14, 2004: >> Dean Snyder: >> No, that is not the whole point - there is also the point >> that 90% of our >> work, which is done now by simple, default processes, would, all of a >> sudden, require custom tailoring. > > So what you're telling us is that you're more text sorter than >linguist, yes? Call me skeptical, but I really doubt that most linguists >spend 90 percent of their time sorting text.
In case the context did not make this clear, I'll say it more explicitly - 90% of the work under discussion, programmatic collation, is done by default processes now. >> >Nobody plans to take away your rights and ability to continue >> >doing what you now do, if it works very well for you. Please, >> >sir, continue doing what you are doing with your current data. :-) >> >> It's incredible to me that you and others keep repeating this mantra, >> ignoring the fact (repeated for the nth time) that we will >> all be forced, >> in our separate research projects, to deal with MULTIPLE, >> COMPETING encodings. > > We have heard how many times that you already deal with multiple >competing encodings - Unicode, web Hebrew, transliteration, etc. It is you >who are ignoring the fact that killing the Phoenician proposal will not >change that. But its approval will only exacerbate the situation. Why add to the mess? Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
