... Excuse me, Peter, but I am not interested in any kind of I'm-right-you're-wrong pissing contest. I am not interested in the word "distort" or in bandying...
... It hasn't, but that's beside the point. I posted the definitions I published many years ago. What's wrong with them? Since you (plural) chose to alter, or...
... They are minimalist. While they may appropriate to your article in the WWS, it was felt that they need elaboration to be useful in the context of the...
... So what would you, or anyone, suggest? Definitions are _supposed_ to be minimalist -- look at Euclid, or Bloomfield's Postulates or Bloch's Postulates. But...
... I was just answering your question. Obviously the people who wrote the definitions for the glossary felt that elaboration was necessary. ... Says who? They...
... Thanks for the confirmation. I can recall staring at the font design for the Model 43 Teletype, which must have had a 9-pin printhead. (Like most, if not...
Daniels: abjad a type of writing system that denotes only consonants The Unicode Standard: Abjad. A consonant writing system. The main letters are all ...
Daniels: alphabet a type of writing system that denotes consonants and vowels The Unicode Standard: Alphabet. A writing system that consists of letters for...
The recent lively discussion centering around Suzanne McCarthy revealed the idea that some people don't perceive consonants and vowels separately, apparently...
... Remember, though, that just because you invented a term doesn't mean you control its usage for all eternity. It may be annoying that meanings get changed,...
... Diffidently I suggest that the copy editor who thought up that headline was being funny, and knew perfectly well how to spell. (I was one myself, briefly,...
In the absence of space itself a subspace will expand to fill the void. A typographic proof: On this day 62 years ago (Hamle 25, 1934 EC) the Addis Zemen...
... When they get vowel points they cease to abjads definitely, and when they get matres, they cease to be true or "pure" abjads. Thus the only true abjad in...
... When I noticed the "monosyllabic" original origins of writing, I started to find the (then sparse) psycholinguistic literature in this area (references in...
... How about for five years? They were first published in 1990. When did the unicode versions appear? ... It would be nice if change had occurred because the...
... So you think that a Hebrew Genesis when unpointed is an abjad, but that a Hebrew Genesis pointed is no longer an abjad, but has become an alphabet? ... ...
... No, a text isn't any sort of writing system. The former is written with an abjad, the latter with an alphabet. ... So it's not good as the sole example. ...
... They were quoted to me on sci.lang, and they turned out to be crap, and several people offered to correct them for me. (It was thought that me editing an...
... I'd happily agree, except that I've talked with the staff of the newspaper; the headlines were, and might still be, written around midnight at the printing...
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 19:16:32 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... My spoof. I don't know any details, but it was a local church with several bells. Most likely, the...
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:26:14 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... Being somewhat computer-oriented, I respectfully and gently disagree. I18n of computer software seems...
... This was where I fell off the trolley, when it turned out that a single script could be one type of writing system or another depending on how it was used....
... single ... how ... not of ... I agree. If the distinction between alphabets and abjads is of the same order as the distinction between alphabets and...
... As the writer of the article quoted, I must object to that characterization. My choice of words was perhaps careless, but scarcely heretical; the standard...
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