... Travel books? That seems unlikely unless they were covering geek things to do at Comdex and the like!! I'd be curious to see an ORA travel book - I would...
... Yes it is memorable. Especially int he sw internationalization business, where that particular character has been the bane of many an existence: the...
... I didn't say anything like that. What I said (OK, that's what I get for discussing business matters on this list I guess) is that a combination such as...
... Note that what I said was, "Yes, Vai, obviously, can use a 47-key keyboard, because I can type Vai with one." ... You couldn't be more patronizing if you...
... This is way off-topic, and this will be my only reply. I don't think CP/M directories were nestable. This was twenty-five years ago when very few...
... refused to read. ... get out ... course), ... people ... Vai. I presume Michael is referring to the the following answers in the proposal: 2a. Has contact...
... One may deduce, given the quality of the proposal, that they are experts on Vai who approved the character set, its names, and its glyphs. -- Michael...
... I'm beginning to think you really are stupid. ... How many times do we have to tell you, it has nothing to do with "stupid." It has to do with some years...
... Thanks for providing them. ... I know John Singler, of course. He's an American Africanist, professor of linguistics and former department chair at NYU. As...
... All that obtuseness must get in the way of your seeing more correctly, then. You've done all you can not to read and understand the intent of anything I've...
... Yes, and we all met together in New York to work on Vai. ... These people took the time and trouble to work with us on encoding Vai. They are Vais. They...
... I know for a fact that one of them, John Victor Singer, is not "a Vai," and not a "user of the Vai script." ... You're a damn good bullshit artist. The...
... Yes. Your immense obtuseness apparently makes you unable to understand the problem. ... Yet you keep calling him "stupid." ... What use is a syllabary...
... There are two different issues here which have been confused. First, most of us, including Marco, have agreed that segmenting the syllable is an acquired...
... Dear Qalamites, I feel that, recently, the language and overtones used in this mailing list don't meet the minimal requirements that we all would expect in...
Early on, before hierarchical directories were considered, MSDOS (or was it it in CP/M already?) adopted the VMS style of modifying commands with slashes; e.g....
... someone ... It is like doing division on a multiplication table chart. You locate the dividend (symbol) in the middle of the chart, through a laborious row...
... Well it's pretty widely accepted that learning languages is special. They are much more easily learned by children than by adults. What's to say that...
... No more than any other publisher is. Most of the published authors I know, have had issues relating to getting paid all the royalties that they are due....
... OUP and ORA have different focus points: * OUP:: Intellectually challenging back list material; * ORA: Bleeding edge/cutting edge computer technology ... ...
... It certainly is. ... Yes, and multilingualism is high in Africa, and has always been. ... Learning the values of 26 letters isn't learning a language, but...
... Actually, Arabic keyboards are no more expensive at all. Perhaps in a country where there is a low demand and they need to be imported specially. However,...
... Like Liberia? Suzanne has already noted that in Liberia, knowledge of Arabic is pretty much related to the Qur'an, which makes it unlikely that Vais will...
... Yeah, that is probably a mostly fair summary for the printed materials...but read on.... ... No, a reading of the ORA web site explains their mission and...
... Have you any idea how wrong that is? About the only thing that makes that anywhere near true is Firefox's propensity to lose bookmarks when the computer...
... Won't the market release another keyboard if the users can express what might work better?? Why not plan for iterative or competitive releases? Why does...
... <everson@e...> wrote: the Vai user who wants to go to ... out ... No problem. Tracking the visual image is how it is done. It's how most of us do it. You...
... and the ... average ... is ... more get ... express what ... releases? ... We are just discussing options, Barry. But this is likely not a market driven...
... Well, OK, that is an interesting statement. Is it jsut theory then? I don't get it - It seems like ME has actual plans to deliver a keyboard, so he is not...
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