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I wrote a description about that subject, then came to my senses, and Googled. Here's the first hit: <http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html> Reading the text...
Nicholas Bodley
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Nov 4, 2003
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1769
... Neither Bodley's message nor Geist's Web site mention the year, or even the century, in which the Codex was written. That might provide some insight....
Doug Ewell
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Nov 4, 2003
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... As far as I can remember, it dates back to the middle of the 1980's. It was probably 1984 or 1985: the publishing house (Franco Maria Ricci, Milan) was on...
Marco Cimarosti
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... It's quite likely to be a late-20th Century work. Regards, -- Nicholas Bodley <#o#> Waltham, Mass. <nbodley@...> Using Opera browser 7.22 (3221)...
Nicholas Bodley
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... It was first published in 1981, and presumably written a fairly short time before that. Luigi Serafini, the author, was born in 1949. -- "What has four...
John Cowan
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Nov 4, 2003
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1773
... The American edition is New York: Abbeville, 1983; the title page, copyright page, and jackect copy are typset in English, and all the rest is presumably...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 4, 2003
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I need someone to think of a quick example, off the top of their head, of a language (and example word) that uses the voiced velar fricative, the voiced...
Doug Ewell
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Nov 5, 2003
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1775
Irish. German. Arabic. Lots and lots of languages have this sound. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
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1776
... Topically, In Dutch, it's spelled with <g>. In Arabic, it's spelled with the <`> letter with a dot on top (ghain). -- Peter T. Daniels...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 5, 2003
10:43 pm
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The Dutch one isn't all that voiced though. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com...
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1778
******************************************************** J E P 2 0 0 4 - T A L N 2 0 0 4 - Special Session - ... ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING Call for...
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Nov 6, 2003
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1779
BTW, with all this talk (on Unicode) about hexadecimal digits and "Doug's private alphabet," I should mention that I've added some better charts and examples...
Doug Ewell
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Nov 12, 2003
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On Thursday, 20 November 2003, from 16:00-17:00 GMT (11:00-12:00 EST, 08:00-09:00 PST) I will be interviewed live on The Connection, a NPR radio programme...
Michael Everson
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Nov 18, 2003
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Yippee! Right in my home territory. This is one of my favorite radio shows; your host will probably be Dick Gordon, hired away from CBC radio; by then, he ...
Nicholas Bodley
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Nov 19, 2003
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1782
... WNYC used to play it in the evening, but it was bumped for yet another hour of BBC. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 19, 2003
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... Well, I will be speaking in Dublin at 16:00, so there isn't much chance of my beingg aired at 10:00 EST. ... Readers of Qalam can ask me anything they want...
Michael Everson
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Nov 19, 2003
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Regarding the interview tomorrow, see http://www.wbur.org/schedule/ for the schedule. :-) -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * *...
Michael Everson
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Nov 19, 2003
1:31 pm
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The link to the interview is at http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/11/20031120_b_main.asp -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * *...
Michael Everson
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Nov 20, 2003
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If anyone can find, or create, a text transcript of this show, I would appreciate it. I didn't get to hear the broadcast, and I don't have a computer with...
Doug Ewell
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Nov 21, 2003
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What are the accepted pronunciations of "abjad" and "abugida"? Personally I say ['abdZad] and [abu'gida], where [a] may be realized as [A], as I don't have [a]...
John Cowan
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Nov 25, 2003
1:16 pm
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John Cowan wrote: > What are the accepted pronunciations of "abjad" and "abugida"? > > Personally I say ['abdZad] and [abu'gida], I suppose that "abjad" and...
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... Being a good New Yorker, I say /'&bjehd/ (Smith-Trager, where <&> is [æ], the "ash" digraph, low front), certainly not [a] or [A]. /'&abj&d/ is...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 25, 2003
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... In fact I don't; the first two would violate the rules (such as they are) of English spelling, unless the word were spelled "abugidda". The third I might...
John Cowan
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Nov 25, 2003
4:07 pm
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... Oops! No, I'm afraid I swapped the two IPA [a]'s. _ Marco (who will now sit down and listen 100 times the relevant audio files in ...
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:37:33 +0100, Marco Cimarosti ... Even when I spliced the two pieces together, it was a 404. I did have good luck here, though, which is...
Nicholas Bodley
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Nov 26, 2003
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Qalamites (US ones, anyway) might like to know that there's yet a third version of Georges Ifrah's book on numbers available in English. First there was *From...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 27, 2003
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... I ordered one of them. Postage to Ireland was $18, but that's still a lot less than fifty quid! Thanks, Peter. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *...
Michael Everson
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Nov 29, 2003
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... good ... <http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants /> ... where ... People might find SIL's IPA Help tool of interest: ...
Peter Constable
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Dec 2, 2003
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:52:52 -0800, Peter Constable ... Peachy! Thanks kindly! It's ~31 Mb as a .zip download; also available as three 10-MB files. I have ADSL,...
Nicholas Bodley
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Dec 3, 2003
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For a particularly pure example of a featural script, see http://www.zompist.com/elkwrite.htm . -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com...
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